Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 6, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editor David 6977042 focus Winnipeg free press a 7 january no plans to reduce Battle on drugs regarding the article entitled attack of drugs in re treat that appeared in the Winnipeg free press on 4 in his Paul Wiecek implied that budget cuts have reduced the effectiveness of drug enforcement in Winnipeg and that Revenue can Ada was considering disbanding its drug this could not be further from the there Are no plans to reduce our drug interdiction in Revenue Canada is investing heavily in developing new methods for combating drug we have introduced new Detec Tion technology such As xray Mobile xray High tech drug detection devices and portable con Traband detection kits for use by our in his Wiecek quoted unnamed sources who contend that officials in the Revenue department have questioned the role of Revenue Canada customs officers in drug enforcement the role of customs officers is clearly defined in cooperative agreements with the while they Are not police customs officers do work Exten sively with the ramp and other police agencies to prevent drugs from being brought into their efforts Are paying in our officers seized Over billion in and in the Winnipeg area alone customs officers seized illegal drugs valued at More than we Are committed to providing canadians with an efficient Revenue the government announced on november 4 that customs Border services would remain within a uni fied department of National reve nue which combines Revenue can Ada taxation and Revenue Canada customs and these two depart ments have been under the minister of National Revenue since a unified and streamlined depart ment of National Revenue will build on the strengths of our existing Cus excise and taxation adminis it will better serve canadians and strengthen their Confidence in can Adas Revenue we will be in a better position to administer provincial and territorial fiscal legislation and generally to be More responsive to provincial requirements at the last but not we will provide an improved working environment for our better training and More Opportunity for career de Pierre Gravelle Deputy Revenue Canada excise and Ottawa nothing changes in politics the Winnipeg City Council has decided to proceed with the construction of the Charleswood Bridge ear Lier than planned not 1997 but rather could the reason be the pending provincial election pressure from Broadway the following information concerning three premiers May been lightening former Manitoba Premier Howard Pawley built a Bridge to no where in his own Riding and suffered a massive election Saskatchewan Grant Devine built the Alameda dam in his own Riding and suffered a massive elec Tion the Charleswood Bridge is planned to Benefit Premier Gary Fil Mons in politics nothing changes Harvey Benson Gimli sensible plan put aside knowing the earlier history of the Moray or Charleswood Bridge May be in when my wife and i bought a lot on Moray Street and built our family we knew that a Bridge was planned for a River crossing linking Portage Avenue and Roblin the James town planning commission had developed a plan to link James and Charleswood by a two Lane Bridge spanning the Assini Boine River at Moray Street As a divided was to constitute a collector Street for additional when the metro corporation tray fic engineers changed this concept to that of a High Speed inner perimeter Beltway closing off Bruce and Lodge the area residents Rose in to the editor the free press welcomes Fetters from letters must be signed and should include a clearly printed address and Telephone names will be published but not All letters maybe edited for style and Short letters Are Likely to be please address letters to letters to the Winnipeg free 1355 Mountain Winnipeg letters can be sent to our fax we did not oppose the concept originally planned for a simple River crossing linking the two commune we did oppose a High Speed dissecting a residential area Replete with schools and Chil Dren going to and from we convinced first the City of James then the metro corporation that if a High Speed thoroughfare was required we did not believe it was it should follow the Sturgeon Road route which provided a direct linkage Between Portage Avenue and the perimeter the City of at consider Able acquired property along Sturgeon Road to facilitate a higher Speed limited Access Corri Why has this More sensible plan been set aside a Mackling Dugald put canadians to work during the period 19461974 the unemployment rate in Canada aver aged per cent the Federal government in those years had 17 Bud get surpluses and 12 with the aggregate of the surpluses nearly three times the aggregate of the since 1974 the unemployment rate has averaged nine per cent and the government has had an unbroken string of deficits culminating in this years whopper of Over there is a message in these Fig ures for finance minister Paul mar unemployment has been the Lead ing cause of the Federal govern ments continuing deficit for 20 years there have always been at least a million canadians Unzem drawing from the Public Treasury in Pic benefits and Wel instead of contributing to it in income and sales the surest Way for Martin to re Duce the deficit would be to get the Economy to generate jobs for unemployed the raising of i premiums will Cost Martin and his colleagues have opted for a Quick fix to hold Down the it will slow achievement of the Paramount need if the deficit is to be reduced canadians to be working instead of in Ruben be sure Wim ipes of your facts it seems that Clayton manness has taken up where Len Derkach has left off in insulting and annoying the teachers of this manness was quoted on Decem ber 26 As saying that he was currently Reading two books on Educa Tion and that he had determined educators have forgotten or never re ally understood what education was meant to i would like to suggest to manness that he Stop Reading nonacademic books on education and instead spend the time getting to know his department if he were to do this he just might discover that there Are indeed Rea sons that explain Why students in immersion and Francais schools achieved Superior Marks in the re cent National math manness would find contrary to what he had previously the two programs do not have the same at Best they May have the same however the materials and teacher i servicing Are not at All the in some disciplines the program differs so greatly that when the province schedules a provincial exam such As history 300 Hisoire 300 they must pay for the preparation of two different exams in order to respond to the disparity of the two curricular manness has his work Cut out for i Only Hope the next time he feels the need to share his Wisdom that he will be sure of his Bobbi Ethier French Kelvin High Whitewater resurfaces murky tale reaches Gates of the Clinton White House Washington when Bill Clinton won his first two year term As governor of Arkansas in 1978 he appointed James Mcdougal to be an adviser on economic he May wish he had never heard of whose energetic efforts at personal economic development have brought to the Gates of the White House a murky it concerns real estate dealings and that Symbol of the freewheeling a savings and loan financial institution that leaving taxpayers holding the bag for it shows the Arkansas Way of doing because it is a complicated it has received less attention than allegations of adulterous behaviour made against Clinton by former members of his Security detail when he was governor of it surfaced but quickly vanished during Clinton 1992 run for the democratic presidential partnership it began during Clinton first term As Whitewater development a real estate was formed in 1979 by his wife Susan and the the partnership put a Down payment on 230 acres of land costing on the White River in a Remote area near the Northern Border of Arkansas with the idea was to develop about 43 equivalents of the Manitoba cottage the Clinton borrowed about from a Bank to put up their share of the Down in Hillary borrowed from Mcdougal to build a three bedroom cottage on one lot that served As a Model for potential buyers to she sold by the partnership had spent on land surveys and building Access by plot sales had brought in Revenue of to Whitewater development that Mcdougal bought Madison guaranty savings and like movie Madison had million of it was like the one Jimmy Stewart saved in the movie its a wonderful such called came into existence in the Early 19th Century to fill a Gap left by Banks did personal and commercial the took in savings and made Home in the Early Reagan Era deregulation turned Safe and stodgy into glittering opportunities for shrewd one person could own an putting up not As were allowed to make High risk commercial to make real estate Loans to make 100 per cent Deposit insurance covered per account and the meaning was made final not the the result was a Gigantic financial were looted across the country at a taxpayer Cost of Mcdougal began his ownership of Madison guaranty in classic style by boosting the Clinton were not connected with this although Whitewater had an account at Madison president Clinton and his wife Hillary have found themselves in spotlight Over Washington editor David Macdonald the Arkansas state banking regulator says he told governor Clinton in 1983 that Madison was making unwise Loans and was being run Federal investigators for the Resolution Trust set up to clean up the say they found Large sums of Money moved in 1984 through White Waters account at in governor Clinton asked Mcdougal to run an event to raise funds to help Clinton pay off a Campaign Mcdougal raised Federal regulators now Are investigating to see if any of that amount came out of Madison guaranty in Early a Clinton appointed state David made a loan to Susan Mcdougal through a loan company he to help support Madison suffering from bad Federal investigators say part of this sum was put into the Whitewater Hale claims that governor Clinton and James Mcdougal asked him to make the a claim Clinton Hales federally sponsored lending capital was supposed to make Loans Only to socially or economically disadvantaged last Hale was indicted for Hillary Clinton represented Madison legally twice in the second time was before state seeking approval of a plan to let Madison sell Stock to raise the state securities headed by governor Clinton appointee Beverly Bassett said no Stock was late in Federal banking regulators found Madison bookkeeping said funds had been diverted to Mcdougals own family and removed him from control of in the regulators dissolved adding thereby million to the multimillion Dollar Cost to All Mcdougal was tried and acquitted on fraud charges related to Madison now he is being investigated during the 1992 Clinton asked a Clinton Campaign lawyer to audit his and Hillary the lawyer said the Clinton had earned nothing on their total investment in up to in the Clinton sold their 50 per cent part of Whitewater to James for a file on Whitewater and the Clinton finances was held by White House Deputy counsel Vince who committed suicide last file removed that file was removed after the suicide by White House chief counsel Bernie last Clinton decided to make that file and All Clinton documents about Whitewater available to his own Justice department for its republicans in Congress want House and Senate hearings on the Madison episode and the Whitewater development they also want an Independent special prosecutor to be to take Over the investigation into both now being conducted by the Federal Justice just before Hillary Clinton said i am bewildered that a losing investment is still a topic of inquiry i just think what weve said is doonesbury by Garry Trudeau sounds Lik you you a Bap Story is like its appear Ance stimulates a feverish fuss Mich spin doctors then have the i5n7 necessarily Over 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