Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 5, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editor David 6977042 focus Winnipeg free press 117 january correctness threatens us anew which is threat ening our is emerging in it is called political which can be defined As a Sel serv ing philosophy forced on canadians by aggressive and vocal special in Terest this trend is gaining ground As Many especially Are afraid to speak out against common sense and even sometimes truth Are foreign to these they Are the self appointed guardians of our sole judges of right and and god help those who dare to contradict consider the following examples a University professor was sus Pended for expressing his views on Date rape at a University in new this happened in a democratic and in the Type of in where Freedom of speech was traditionally Fred Cleverley was attacked in several letters to the free for suggesting that our just like the rest of should be held responsible for crimes committed by them on the injustices Are being committed to satisfy political not the least of them being the so called affirmative a government sponsored hiring which openly practises discrimination against White it is unfortunate that our Media also decided to join the political correctness much of the news we Are getting is not really but mostly a biased rehash of politically Correct canadians should refuse to be and speak or else they could find themselves living in a dictatorship run by special inter est Eugene Nikitin Winnipeg Bravo to Buchholz and the Rob a Hearty Bravo to Garth Buchholz for his december 27 review of the Royal Winnipeg ballets boxing Day matinee performance of the John Neumeier nut Buchholzz review was not Only accurate in its but right on the Mark in its observation on the advantages of live performances of Ballet Over filmed his comment that the Rob nut Cracker is evidence that the Ballet must be seen and heard live to be fully relished is both sound and the Rob version absolutely unique in the Ballet repertoire has More real and challenging dancing then virtually any other Nutcracker performed in North America or abroad during the Christmas sea and the Rob dancers have brought to their own production a wonderful accumulation of acting ability and superlative classical the Rob is fully deserving of Buchholzz enthusiastic and positive Corey Keeble Toronto cartoon want a laughing matter the Winnipeg free press has Long been my newspaper of and i particularly enjoy the comics Sec it is with dismay and an Ger that i wish to complain about the contents of a cartoon called this cartoon has never provided any humor that i could so i simply ignore in the december 21 is sue of the free the Dilbert cartoon went beyond humourless and and became better de scribed As and even the character in the cartoon gives his Friend a list of his Christmas which in itself is in very questionable he then instructs the Friend to shoplift the since he knows that he has no the Friend accepts the and states that he will Start by shop lifting a Pencil to Check off the such an passed off As humor Ous entertainment in a Section of your paper most Likely to be read by Young is completely Unac As a teacher and a i am Well aware of the problems of shop stores in our town Are and have gone to great expense to to the editor the free press welcomes letters from letters must be signed and should include a clearly printed address and Telephone names will be published but not All tetters May be edited for style and Short letters Are less Likely to be please address letters to letters to the Winnipeg free 1355 Mountain Winnipeg letters can be sent to our fax number defend themselves against one store allows one teen in the building at a time to prevent being cleaned out by the kids from a nearby the message sent by Dilbert can Only help to increase this it would please me to find Dilbert missing from your at the very i would expect that its contents be edited for such alarming Brian Davidson Ontario keep close watch on your wallets i am writing regarding the letter to the editor in the free press on de Cember 23 from the lady who warned women to watch their purses in i have a shoulder purse which i carry on my left twice i encountered men stand ing in line behind me while i was waiting to pay for my each time they didst have any thing in their they were just standing there ready to grab my Wallet As i pulled it out of my each time i pulled my purse to the front of me As i was near the cashier to get out my Wal then i turned around and the Fel lows were Betty Mcmorran Winnipeg look after the needy first this May be a rhetorical but Why Are the taxpayers expected to subsidize a Bunch of sports millionaires when we have so Many truly needy people to consider not one single athlete playing now or in the past is Worth a million Dol if the Winnipeg jets cannot make a then As a business it should either reduce the personnel it sup ports or Cut obviously a hockey team cannot function with significantly fewer which makes it imperative to Cut most people would agree that a pro sports salary at on tenth the current Levels is generous consider ing the essential skills the players offer our even Scott one of the main proponents for the new says that salaries Are out of control and that it May take collapse of the league to get things Back under con i Hope the City and province con Sider these factors before they com Mit our funds to an Enterprise doomed to certain Pete Zahradka Winnipeg police provide a wonderful gift i Felt compelled to write to you about a most wonderful thing that happened to me this i am a single Parent with a Young i was approached by a member of my a who asked me if i would be interested in allowing some members of the Winnipeg police department to bring me a i said of a few Days before Christmas they came and i must say i was completely not Only did they bring a huge but Santa Claus was with them As my son was spellbound by and i was truly overwhelmed and delighted by the it was so it really helped to make this Christmas i would like to extend an enor Mous thank you of appreciation to the District 3 police station and to All their written on the Bottom of a letter they gave to me was the one great City it certainly is Carly owe Winnipeg up photo finance minister Paul Martin standing announces appointment of Bank of Canada governor Gordon bogeyman int Only target and Paul Phillips special to the free press human resources min ister Lloyd Axworthy must have heaved a sigh of Relief at the replacement of the Bank of Canada governor John under pressure from the new Liberal Crow found enough personal reasons to re tire from the but while the appointment of Gordon presumably a Crow May have pleased foreign the minister responsible for the human wreckage that crows ant inflation fight left behind must repress a the of is that previously crows Sec Ond in command at the quickly announced that the Banks goal of Onet Othree per cent inflation for the next five years would the Banks obsession with inflation at the expense of employment and production is at Odds with the Liberal focus on Job creation through investment in Public Infra Structure and help to Small Busi inflation fighting during crows regime since the Bank of Canada adopted monetarist eco nomic philosophy in has meant consistently High interest but High interest rates have Hurt growth and have greatly increased government deficits and Public and have undermined our Independence from foreign besides decreased tax revenues and increased unemployment and welfare crows policy has also compounded provincial government debts and deficits by increasing the Exchange rate which further raised provincial financing Zero inflation now the question is whether Thiessen will interpret his Man Date simply As continuing the quest for the holy grail of Zero in or whether he will accept a multidimensional monetary pol icy directed not Only at inflation but also at employment and eco nomic after with inflation running below two per is it not time to concentrate on the million in the46billiondollar def debt and the 27billiondollar Trade deficit and int it time our provincial finance Eric concerned himself with the half billion Dollar deficit and unemployed Manitoban rather than John Crow with savaging the health and Edu cation system with unfortunate consequences for Manitoban the problem the Bank must Stop viewing the world with Cyclops Eye and must mesh its policy with Axworthy fiscal initiatives if the country is to reap the Bene fits of the Liberal government the reasons Are q As Long As interest rates Are above the economic growth governments must pay More for interest charges on their q High interest rates Hurt and revenues Sag while expenditures increase from the re the can Only be reduced by cutting social programs by increasing but government cutbacks Only Lead to a vicious the Mulroney government tried but the deficit did not in Paul Martin inherited a deficit billion higher than the one Michael Wilson had when he started attacking the Defi Cit almost a decade at the provincial the conservatives have hacked and slashed at education and health All to no conservative cutbacks have not worked because the reductions in government expenditures served to prolong and deepen a recession which was already protracted and aggravated by High interest and Exchange q High interest rates drive up the Exchange rate and this reduces increases imports and thereby exports Canadian further raising the deficit and unemployment and welfare pay this is increasingly True As the Naftal and Gatt further reduce our ability to protect jobs in the Canadian econ q High interest rates invite for Eigners to Purchase High yield Ca Nadian making us even More dependent on foreign Finan Cial interests while at the same time amassing a huge foreign Defi in interest policies to add insult to interest payments to foreigners Are not Ca Nadian taxable income As they would be if the securities were held by Here Are the specific effects that the Bank of Canadas High in Terest rate policies have had on the country q a Rise in interest payments resulting in worsening deficits and a mushrooming of q a depressed Economy with sagging government q a High unemployment rate which put income support systems under further exacerbating the q a rapid buy up of Canadian Bonds by foreigners As a con a rapid deterioration in our foreign account balance in ser by 1990 our interest payments to foreigners had risen to five times the level in giving a current account deficit of Bil can we have any expectation that the Job creation program will work infrastructure investment will immediately put to work construction and related workers who Are now but the plan will bring a lasting stimulus Only if in Terest rates Are kept Low As the Economy Only with a rate of economic growth greater than the interest rate can quite pay off our debts from the growth Divi critics of this strategy will charge that a easy policy will Lead Back to inflation As the Economy but unused factory capacity and the currently High unemployment As Well As increasing global Competition guarantee that we need not fear a return of inflation for a few years in the even if some Low or moderate inflation did occur this would not be a bad in the half Century since the end of the second world there have been Only two Brief periods where Canada experienced economic growth without some and those two Peri ods followed Sharp we should expect the growth with minimal for the next two or three if at that Point inflation rises a Little it is imperative that we do not again re sort to a single minded monetary policy of the Crow variety that would frustrate economic growth and return us to deficits and rising what should we make of the arguments made by crows supporters they would expect Thiessen to follow crows policies on the grounds if he foreigners will Force higher inter est rates by Selling their causing an Exchange crisis in the but Why would foreigners lose Confidence and give up High yield ing Bonds which still Promise to pay the old High interest rate Why would they want to cause them selves capital losses from lower Bond prices and a lower Exchange rate Opportunity if this happened it would give the Bank of Canada a Golden Opportunity to repatriate the debt by buying up the Bonds at bargain this would serve canadians in several ways q it would allow the Bank to monetize More of the thus provid ing the Money necessary to finance the economic q More of the debt would be held by the Bank of Canada which would directly lower both the government and the current account since interest would then be paid to the Bank of rather than to q any temporary decline in the Exchange rate would encourage exports and discourage for Canadian Farmers and re source industries the immediate Impact would be in the form of higher the departure of Crow gives the new Liberal government a Golden Opportunity to instruct governor Thiessen to concern himself with the health of the Economy in Gen eral and not just on fighting the inflation High interest rates must not be used to thwart Axworthy Job creation the liberals have surely recognized the failure of monetarist economist which sent the conservatives into and justly so for their continuing sup port for the Bank of Canadas disastrous monetary Costas Nicolaou and Paul Phil lips teach at the department of University of Manito doonesbury by Garry Trudeau 6iv5mpa afraid t Hows even Holp 7hpou6h ing up you a to put in at this ww5 for you in a i Makk to ;