Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 21, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba The Winnipeg free press welcomes Fetters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to readers forum Winnipeg free press a i december in charge of our destiny in its editorial of november the free press has again demonstrated its Complete Lack of understanding of the issues surround ing the recent referendum in in which the residents voted overwhelmingly to secede from the City of some five years following a prov inc wide the municipal por Tion of taxes in heading Ley Rose by an aver age of 40 per when considered in Light of the services received in this increase was seen As unfair and contrary to the Manitoba assessment act which states that real property assessments must be fair and a Long struggle for fairness and equity during which time an Independent study concluded that heading Ley was grossly overtaxed in rela Tion to services received and that the Headin Gley area would be far better off As a Sepa rate Rural despite Many negotiations with the City of no alternatives arose and the people voted overwhelmingly in favor of what began As a tax Issue has clearly grown into much More than the Issue of development has remains and will continue to be a prime concern of the Headin Gley for you to suggest that we Are at the mercy of developers and that Urban affairs minister Jim Ernst should waste huge amounts of taxpayers Money to create yet another government Agency to regulate development is irresponsible and reflects your misunderstanding of the the total amount of land available for development in heading Ley is 400 acres out of a total of about heading Ley will As you be overrun with uncontrolled current taxes on the land held by developers in head Ingley Are so High that there is intense pres sure for them to develop it and thus rid them selves of their onerous tax when the heading Ley area forms its own these taxes will be substantially thereby reducing the pressure to develop and allow the landowners to retain their land holdings without either development or High the process of development in an pm such As heading Ley must be a proposal for development must be presented to the municipal it must be considered in Light of the municipal Tys land use if the proposed develop ment is found to be inconsistent with this land use it will be this entire pro Cess takes place with full Public at no less than three Public and with input from provincial the key Point Here is the municipality land use appalled at the volume of and flyers in this Day and age when Good efforts Are made to Cut Down on i am appalled at the volume of flyers that we receive daily in our Mailbox in the free As these min catalogues and advertisements Are not i have to throw it All in the what a waste Ive placed a no flyer sign on my mail Box but your paper arrives packed with flyers every there surely must be a reason Why you have agreed to deliver All these flyers monetary no i urge you to reconsider this i have spoken to Many people about this and like just automatically empty the paper As they bring it in and throw the Fly ers in the it is such a Danielle la Vergne Winnipeg saving the Forest rhetoric is hypocrisy there was a woman from Ontario on to recently who collects paper printed on one Side sorts it and make envelopes with the printing on the saving a multitude of Trees for each tonne of paper i wonder if anyone has taken the time out to Survey the number of Trees we would save if we printed All labels on tins and Job applications in the news papers and All government printed mate rial in one language in sure it would be mind boggling if we this Story about saving the Forest on one hand and them printing everything in two languages is hypocrisy at its Gimli grassroots disagreement residents Art and Doris Anderson opposed belonging to have consistently maintained their position of wanting to pre serve the Rural nature of the this has been stated in the Hilderman study in the cites heading Ley action area plan 1991 and at All times by the people of your editorial also implies that heading Ley item recall proved a huge 500lot development West of the perimeter it took then minister for Urban affairs minister Gerry Ducharme to overrule this decision and Stop this devel if this is the kind of Protection we receive from the i believe that we can do without this example also serves to illustrate the Point that the province already has the required administrative Structure in place to Deal with Urban sprawl without creating even More As you Sug what the people of heading Ley essentially voted for was less government interference in our for you to propose even More government regulation flies in the face of what is clearly an Over whelming Public opinion As Well As the statements of the people of heading Ley Are not As naive and susceptible to development As you the people of heading Ley Are United in their desire to preserve and maintain a reasonably sem Rural Community wherein both the generation and disburse ment of Community resources Are decided by the people and which will remain within their this is not an unreasonable de sire and is one for which the residents of heading Ley overwhelmingly demonstrated their support in a Clear example of participatory irresponsible and factually erroneous editorials like yours stand out As a Stark and pathetic contrast to these Gar Glavin heading Ley fear of torture enough reason for refugee status the article Reform leaders hand too firm 29 has Winnipeg spokes men portraying provincial attitudes this is even messes cum mings and Kirkham have a history of regular disagreements with head these Dis agreements have frequently had less to do with grassroots input than with both have consistently chosen to ignore poli cies that have been officially adopted by Vot ing delegates at Reform party policy Confer Van Den Bosch is not president of Manitoba he has and May still president of Jame Assiniboia constituent he is one of the four National directors who were elected from Manitoba at the last policy he has been chairman of a provincial Council that was organized Origi Nally to share ideas Between constituency representatives to Aid the growth of the re form party of Canada within this the group was never intended to become an official policymaking body since constituency organizations themselves Are consid ered the real grassroots of the Munfor the Manitoba Council opted to engage in policymaking and therein lies the endless consultation does allow everyone to be there constraints of time that dictate deadlines in order to accomplish attending Manitoba Council meetings As my constituency represent it seemed to me that endless discussions Seldom led to constructive decisions and frequently became complaint sessions about the activities of head office and the National because of our constituency agreed unanimously to drop for my i am encouraged with what is taking shape within the what we All need to i is that even organizations that Are grassroots driven in order to be effect have administrative this political party has experienced phenomenal growth since its formation in am not sure How Kirkham has arrived at his conclusions about National membership i do know the accuracy of his state ments has often been i also be Lieve that erratic growth patterns Are caused by a wide variety of factors and Are not necessarily an indication of As president of Portage Interlake cons Titu i know that we often communicate our grassroots opinions to the party through Manitoba National directors and also directly with head our suggestions Are not always acted on and we Are not always Happy about i agree with the president of Brando Souris constituency who was quoted As saying that the problem is basically an internal one within some Winnipeg con i am hopeful that they will be Able to reconcile their differences so that we can All work for the Good of the Reform party of Canada i am optimistic that the need to Reform Canadas political system will not be undermined by the few who seem inca Pable of perceiving the difference Between grassroots and anarchy Ala Beachell Rosser in recent weeks a number of stories came to Light that fundamentally question the rationality of our refugee determination practice in particular and the immigration policy in the Story of a couple that was granted permanent residency status by the the judge found the three year delay in hearing the couples plea by the depart ment of employment and immigration to be unjustified and in one an iranian woman was denied refugee status and was about to be deported when the minister intervened following questions and criticisms from the opposition members in the House of in another a sikh family has been ordered to go Back to strife torn although sectarian violence is still killing hundreds of people in Punjab every the refugee adjudication Board did not find anything wrong in sending the sikh family Back to that then on november the free press car ried the Story of the family of Abdul a Young couple that fled the atrocities of the military Junta in Fiji following the coup of the tiny picturesque South Pacific Island state of Fiji has a population of Only about a Quarter of a almost evenly divided Between indigenous fijians and fijians of in Dian initially brought in by the Brit ish As Plantation ind fijians now slightly outnumber the indigenous Popula that raised the fear of losing political dominance among the indigenous capitalizing on this the army wholly controlled by the indigenous population seized Power in May led by colonel ral an the military Junta dismissed a democratically elected govern ment and under the Banner of Fiji for fijians unleashed a reign of terror against the resultant repression and suppression forced scores of indians out of Fiji to seek Refuge in such countries As new the United states and especially brutal treatment was directed against political those who demanded restoration of search and seizure of imprison torture and harassment by the army became their Sikander Abdul was one of these political activists who actively struggled for the annulment of the military Rule and the restoration of faced with the threat of he was forced to go underground before fleeing to even while in he spoke out against the brutal military Junta in a Csc interview in october Abduls family received numerous unwelcome visits from the his father was detained and severely and his family Back in Fiji continues to live in despite All this Abdul and his wife struggled hard to establish themselves in he received training under the Core area initiative and became employed As a bus operator with Winnipeg their first born in began his the second born in Winnipeg in november is just starting to be acquainted with life in it is extremely difficult to understand the rationale of denying refugee status to this threat of imprisonment and torture by a military Junta must be regarded As grounds for seeking political Asylum in Cana on the these cases seem to be in but on closer look they do form a disturbing it is apparent that the conservatives under Brian Are deter mined to restrict from third world countries As much As Canadas immigration policy badly needs a comprehensive critical review and the multicultural Community should be a part of the review to ensure an economically sound As Well As humane Anwar islam Winnipeg monstrous male myths what Are these erroneous and quoted monstrous male myths Brent Nail is writing of in his letter of november 16 is he perhaps referring to the Over whelming crisis of male generated Vio Lence rampant in Canada today could he1 be referring to the statistics that one out of four women will be sexually assaulted at one Point in her life or that 62 per cent of All women murdered in Canada Are Vic Tims of Domestic violence these Are Fig ures taken from the 1991 Issue of Cana Dian women studies on violence against Brentnall letter would Lead to the Assumption that he is accusing this Type of data As bearing mythical quite he in his quest for gender does not take the time to quote his or to name his sources in order to Back up his claim regarding the greater occur Ance of Hus band in his very glib comparison of a phenomenon which Only some women were experiencing with the dra Matic proportions of daily violence suffered by Brentnall casually overlooks All forms of violence women Are constantly exposed How can Brentnall attribute the widespread scope of violence against women to Mere Phenomena Are As a to and very Simi Lar incidences of or Arent we obligated to question whether the reality of what is happening is largely attributable to displaced unhealthy attitudes were it men suffering at the hands of women to such an would Brentnall and others of the same mindset then want to assume social responsibility for that Type of phenomenon Brentnall seems to have a very negative and distorted View of what feminists do for we do not merely promote the beneficial Good of but also concern ourselves and have influenced the welfare of All minority such As class and sexual in Brentnall should exam Ine his request for equal love and Adora Tion for men Doest it seem ironic to be asking this of a gender which itself has been fighting to attain the same goal for we Are not in a game to replace the supremacy of one gender with but merely to come to an equal Unity Tamara Steinborn Winnipeg business Council wrote Mulroney economic script Frances Russell prime minister Brian Mulroney had his script ready for the first ministers lunch on the it was written by the business Council on National the organization represent ing Canadas major multinational Corpora another the hard data of swell ing child declining Canadian in comes and Quebec plan to abandon medi care by imposing Universal user fees and hos Pital was ignored not Only by the conservatives at the but by the new democrats and in a statement released the same Day that Canadas first ministers met for the first time in 18 the Beni called on govern ments to stay the dont look for Quick it governments should be focusing their efforts on building a solid basis for sustainable economic and employment growth through the to the that Means working on what it Calls the economic fundamentals Low Infra which is supposed to but Doest deliver Low interest rates an affordable and efficient Public sector and a favourable in vestment the Beni will create Strong Export growth and Superior Mulroney continues to see the world from the corporate economic stimulation but Only within the fiscal Frame in other he will act to create jobs and inspire Confidence Only if he acts even faster to Cut off All Money to the prov inces for health and higher the prime minister trotted out the pm the organization for economic cooperation and development has found that Canada has the second lowest inflation 0 about cent of families headed by rate among the major industrialized Cou people under age 25 were below the poverty Canadas inflation rate is the lowest in compared to 28 per cent in 21 years its interest the lowest in 18 we have the ingredients for mul Roney we Are sending out signals that we Canada Are a Good place to he also reiterated what is now the rights most notable and empty Promise we and most premiers that containment of the Cost of government is the most important contribution we can make to wards economic the prime minister ignored another set of compelling statistics for 1990 q per cent of Canadas population was in up from per cent from a year that one out of every q per cent of Canadian children live in up from 15 per cent in that one out of every six children or of the individuals politicians like to describe As Canadas q children now make up per cent of the poor up from per cent in q average family income fell per after to q single mothers with families earned a per cent drop from about per cent of single mothers lived in Pover q two Parent families made an average of q the top on fifth of families made per cent of total the Bottom one fifth earned just per nor could canadians find much Hope in the Manitoba Gary Filmon went to the con Ference with a laudable proposal for a National reconstruction program like that used by president Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the by the time he got to it had dwindled Down to his idea for a personal and corporate income tax this would build stability and encourage in he i think that alone would give a sense of Confidence in the Economy that int out there Filmon int keeping up with the like All he thinks there is Only one tax that counts the tax on the Canadian federation for Independent business could Tell him that the tax that is killing the Canadian Economy is the tax conservatives favor the seven per cent goods and services Filmon had nothing to say on the Albertas Don Getty went Filmon one bet he wants an income tax taking Mulroney he claimed that canadians Are insistent on controlling the size of gov the greatest disappointment for Canad was the Limp listed response of the Liberal and nip newfoundlands Clyde a was All for stimulation so Long As it didst in crease the Ontario nip Premier Bob Raes contribution to the gathering was to encourage canadians to Rob their retirement savings to buy the Only Hope canadians May have is Saskatchewan Roy asked by reporters what would make canadians think there had been four social democrats around that luncheon Romanow had to he displayed at least a hint of the Good news we the bad news we didst do the Saskatchewan Premier made Clear that he will keep his gloves on Only until the next Federal if the end result is that this preoccupation with the deficit and the debt remains in the exercise will have been a waste of and he promised that then the hard edges of philosophical difference Over what is important in an Economy Competition or finally be can Canada wait it 70 but in Kino a ;