Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 22, 1992, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press my w Juko Winnipeg free press september phone 6577000 editorials John editor editor Stephen j o no and maybe Liberty of religion m Equality of civil rights the Danes said the Irish said yes and the French said the drive toward a single european currency is still alive after the French referendum on the maastricht treaty on but the european unifies have been warned to proceed with the French electorate approved the maastricht treaty by per cent in favor to per cent the Danes and the in their june were More decisive country on each the treaty won Strong support in French but in Rural where farm organizations campaigned hard against the treaty and against further european the majority was ant Europe feeling in Rural France is important to this and especially the Grain exporting is waiting for Europe and the United states to Call off their Export subsidy War so that Grain prices can return closer to the Cost of production and Canadian Grain growers can return to French Farmers sustained by the common agricultural policy were alarmed this Spring to learn that the subsidy Well was running they blamed the european Community and the technocrats at Brussels for the Dis mantling of the farm subsidy system that has kept them in the referendum on the maastricht treaty offered a Chance for a further protest against withdrawal of their subsidies and they seized the referendum result showed that French Farmers cannot mobilize a majority of their compatriots to obstruct european in time is against the Farmers in France since Urban populations Are rising faster and their political position has been gradually this referendum re sounded like the last Hurrah of a political Force that can no longer dictate terms to France and to the disappointing news for Canadian Grain growers is that subsidized farm ers can dictate terms to Republican presi Dent and presidential candidate George Bush announcement of an extra billion in subsidies to Grain exports under the Export enhancement program this election year deepened Farmers dependence on government handouts and deferred the Day when they will have to learn to grow Grain at the world Italy and the United by withdrawing from the european monetary system to devalue the lira and the showed the unstable Quality of the present currency arrangements in the multiple currencies cannot be kept indefinitely at fixed Exchange rates while the Money print ing governments pursue divergent fiscal and monetary the French referendum result shows that a narrow majority of the French Are willing to resolve the matter by submitting eventually to a single currency and a single Central canadians should wish Europe Well in that on our Knees they didst learn from watergate by Stewart Macleod Thomson news service canadians who find themselves con fused by the constitutional advice they Are getting these Days from politicians and journalists might be Wise to avoid seek ing clarification from some of Canadas leading academic constitutional experts offer their advice to canadians about the current constitutional package in a slim pamphlet entitled Canada Roger head of the department of political science at the University of is persuaded that Western Canada not Only lost out in the constitutional negotiations but suffered humiliation in the the Senate professor Gibbons can Only be seen As a humiliation for the West that comes As a because every one who has been following these affairs knows that it is Quebec which is always being Quebec politicians and journalists think they have the Patent on constitutional if they find it is being appropriated by the West there is Likely to be but if professor Gibbons of Calgary knows that there is Only one Way to View the propos als for Senate his colleague in an adjoining column knows there is at least one vanishing ducks i wish that i could dispute Harold and Winnifred Synette letter ecological concerns free september 5 and state that the management of our waterfowl populations is being done in a responsible and competent it would be comforting to think that so vast and wonderful a natural resource As our ducks and geese was managed in a sustainable As a i would consider this to be truly a Feather in my professions the Story of North american water fowl is not one of Triumph but of in i assisted in performing waterfowl Breeding surveys at last Mountain Lake in we were dismayed by the Impact of that years drought on our concerns by the Canadian wildlife services findings of a 25percent reduction in nesting Success that that Falls Hunt limits remained limits were established based on five year averages and it was expected that the populations would recover in the years to needless to say the populations did not re in the years that have the Only increases seen have been in the number of excuses offered to try to justify the fall my personal favorite will always be the idea that Hunting does not increase Duck mor the time has come to think the the time has come to consider ending the waterfowl Hunt until healthy populations can be if this is not done then i fear the Cycle of greed and incompetence will continue until there Are no More Birds to the thought of one Day seeing the Mallard on the endangered species list Breaks my heart for As a youth i would sit on the front stoop of our House and watch flocks hundreds Strong Fly by this statement i should be an old Grey bread but i quiver at the thought that i am Only 31 years of age and already so much has been this i will sit again on my front stoop and look to the beside me will be my Foury Earold daughter and Twoy Earold i Hope the ducks will i Pray that during my lifes work i can make them for the idea of my childrens ears never hearing the sound of hundreds of wings beating the air is More that i can Donald Winnipeg All equal professor Guy Laforest of the University of Laval knows that when Premier Robert Bourassa of Quebec gave his agreement to Senate he was giving his indirect assent to the vision of those like Jim hours Man who believe that there Are 10 equal provinces in the Canadian of is Albertas minis Ter of intergovernmental the chief Capitu Lator in the wests if Horsman turns out not to have been humiliated after was Premier Bourassa for does not Tell there of no reason Why academics should agree with each even on the same and there is certainly no need for them to do so when they have a colleague who agrees with them Kenneth of York and an Edi Tori chief of Canada makes it All Clear the complaints of English especially in Western that the agree ment sacrifices their aspirations to Quebec interests Are if not by the cries of Quebec nationalists that it totally ignored Quebec Long standing As it both sides Are a Ottawa it sometimes seems As though the future of the if not the coun is bound up in taped Telephone Conversa we didst learn much from Richard Nixon watergate we seem to have Learned even less from Princess dianas assuming that her actual voice on the love Dovey tape Alleg edly made from a cellular phone Conversa question of time in any it seems Only a question of time before government officials will refuse to make any comment via except perhaps about the it goes without saying that the most sensational tape in right now is the one in which a senior Quebec government official said Premier Robert Bourassa just caved in on the Charlottetown that from Diane Deputy minister of intergovernmental could have a dra Matic effect on the referendum Campaign in the she did manage to get a temporary court in Junction to prevent publication of the tape transcripts in the but they have been published freely outside Quebec and have even been entered into the record of the National letters English in lets have English equal in Quebec As we Are forced to have French equal in the rest of Canada where numbers certainly dont War rant Bruce Marn Winnipeg hijacking the significance of the hijacking of the ethiopian airlines 727 Jet hijacking ended peace free August 31 is not Only the fact that the hijacking ended peace but also in the heightened concern that the hijackers have witnessed killings by Ethiopia new Rul it is a pubic secret that the so called Eri Trean Peoples liberation front and the ethiopian Peoples revolutionary democratic front Are engaged in political imprisonments and kidnappings since they assumed Power with the blessings of the United although they promised to be demo the Elf does not want to hear about democracy and the a prof honestly believes that democracy equals All Power to we refer to the recent botched elections condemned by observers the a prof is engaged in several clashes Over the country and reaping the fruits of its tribal and exclusionary pol a number of democratic ethiopian organizations in Ethiopia and exiled abroad have been excluded and prohibited from demo cratic participation for believing in Democrat Equality and Unity for All the people of the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to we Appeal to amnesty International and similar other organizations to record and ver Ify the hijackers claims and thus expose the persistent Gross violations of human rights and political killings currently going on in Ethiopia under the Elf and a prof Leader we also strongly Appeal to the Mulroney government and the Bush administration to intervene for the Sake of democracy and the people of we Hope especially that Herman assistant Secretary of state for african affairs of the United states state who initially supported the new dictators of Ethiopia thinking they were really would see the Light and use his influence to Stop the Elf and a prof from promoting the Cycle of another bloodshed going on at the ethiopians deserve democracy in action where All ethiopian organizations could participate in the political future of their we denounce the forced military crisis situation by which the United military and political forces of the Elf and a prof Are working to wards the antidemocratic dismemberment of the Northern province of Eritrea and the total turmoil and destruction being encouraged in the rest of the the world cannot afford to have another Yugoslavia and executive committee ethiopians for democracy and development Winnipeg is it any wonder that a Large number of non French canadians Are wary of the real aspirations of Quebec consider the following statement Hes going to have to explain Why he has concluded a Deal that will Force the Quebec government to promote the development of its too Early to predict the effects of this Cave in but it clearly has Federal officials everyone recalls How an off hand remark by a parti quebecois Cabinet minister altered the 1980 Quebec that was when Lise Payette referred to the wife of Liberal Leader Claude Ryan As an a schoolbook stereotype of a stay housecleaning within the Yvette had organized massive and subsequently had an enor Mous influence in the rejection of the sover eight association its quite remarkable what a few badly Cho sen words can do in an emotional and when they Are on secret they take on an almost sinister one could Tell that prime minister Brian Mulroney took a serious View of the tapes when he rushed to the defence of the Quebec Premier to denounce one of the most fraudulent and preposterous charges Ever made against transcripts Mulroney and his ministers had a lot of transcript Reading on their hands during the last enough for any political one of the transcripts involved a Conversa Tion Between an aide to Secretary of state Rob Ert de Cotret and Celine president of the Quebec women in the aide seems to imply that the governments no evidence the change of systemic salary discrimination based on gender at the University of Manitoba May have created the false impression that this claim is supported by tangible Evi this is certainly not the no Evi Dence was presented to support the commit tees what it did was to use a few selected variables in its the commit tee assumed that salaries Are uniform across All faculties at the this is not the average salary is of no value in an Analy Sis when used in the committee admitted that the differences obtained by its analysis May be due to factors other than however it offered the lame excuse of not enough resources to in clude these factors in the it was aware that rank is an important determinant of salary but this was this creates the impression that the committee wanted to reach a certain salaries at this institution Are based on years of rate of Progress through the ranks and among other factors which Are if the committee wanted to be objective it should have examined Sala Ries in individual departments or faculties and shown where any differences Are due to Gen Der and not other to support its it should show that differences do not exist within Only then would it have the basis for the even using the selected the com Mittee showed that about 20 per cent of females had higher salaries than comparable this was largely ignored and was Only a footnote to the it is regrettable that decisions were based on this subjective one would at the very that this institution should not tolerate discrimination not based on personal by accepting this report it has blurred the distinction Between personal Merit and subjective Palmer Winnipeg Given away a ban on Hunting May be needed to save the declining Duck population Wake up the Federal government has just Given our country away to Uncle Sam at better than bargain basement mul Roney and friends ask not what they can do for their but what they can do for Uncle they while suffering the highest unemployment since the first our leaders calmly Tell us that some jobs will be lost in the Transi Tion this is More than was acknowledged in tic signing of the 1988 free Trade More the rec Ord has proven that this government does not provide assistance to canadians in making the annual Grant to the federation be renewed if the group worked for the no Side in the october 26 the Way to solve the federations problem is not to take a position in the constitutional or referendum says the since there is no record of any group losing funds for supporting there is Natu rally a negative fallout among Quebec nation de Cotret says its just a Misander but that not Likely to carry much weight in the close to the heart the tape that goes closest to the heart of the Federal government is the one obtained by a cleans Magazine a transcript of a Confer ence Call among a group of conservative and including James chief of staff to International Trade minister Michael it was All about marketing the new free Trade Deal with the United states and with suggestions that opponents of the agreement would be labelled As the old Liberal nip and Here were not talking of an offhand re its a 35page transcript that was clearly never meant for if this keeps said an embarrassed Well soon have to rent rowboats and have whispered conversations in the Middle of a since the government has decreased investment in research and As Well As support to pos secondary if we Are to retrain workers and educate Young people for jobs in the new Market envy does it make sense to Cut funding to these programs George Bush will have unbridled Access to Canadas resources and ultimately be at the Helm of our economic perhaps mul Roney and company decision to not invest in retraining and education unnecessary in Bush new world Bush vision is now coming into there will be a three tiered economic Struc Ture in the unemployed will be the new world Hunters and the employed will be Hewers of carriers of water and miners of Ore for Uncle and the Rich will be the wintering in sum Mering in the our children they will be born with la Bels made in controlled and to serve the United states of Helen Macdonald destruction the Federal government has begun the de Bate on the elimination of the family allow one More step in the destruction of can Ada As we know it has been the conservative government has set out on a deliberate path of destroying our social after according to the americans these pro Grams Are unfair few people re Alize that the Federal government will no longer be funding medicare by the few people will notice that the family allowance will soon be the smoke and mirrors game of constitutional such As who gets How Many sen ate has worked beyond Mulroney and the conservatives wildest while our Universal social programs Are quietly being dismantled everyone eyes have been focused on constitutional Mulroney has not saved the country with a new he has steadily been destroying Canada will be changed not because we have a new but because our jobs will have left for Mexico when the North american free Trade agree ment is and our Universal social pro Grams will have been an election will have to be called within a the new government we elect will have the horrendous task of trying to put this coun try together so that once again people can live with some sense of Joa Johannson Winnipeg ;