Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 9, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editor David 6977042 issues Winnipeg free press a 7 january emergency staff deserve Praise we wish to extend our most Heartfelt thanks to the peo ple who were passing by Pur Home at 50 University Crescent in the Early hours of october 31 and helped my husband and me out of our burning further than yous Are extended to the Many police offi cers and ambulance personnel who attended As the fire police and ambulance personnel were very kind and most courteous to my husband and me in the wee hours of that morning As we were forced out of our Home by flames and one simply cannot fully appreciate the exemplary service that our Community emergency services personnel provide until one finds oneself in an urgent time of for one to say that it is Only part of their duty is Only partly As we Learned that night the police and ambulance departments a service which is More than just a firefighters and police officers alike were Quick to of Fer the warmth of their vehicles and their jackets As we were forced to flee our Home without our shoes or everyone seemed to care and wanted to lend a hand where they a special thanks to Constable Sevan and his partner who helped us get to a local hotel for the As the fire claimed our Only Means of we also wish to express our most sincere thanks to the staff at the Robins donuts Coffee shop on University Crescent the staff at the Montcalm motor As Well the kind help and Many phone Calls from our concerned neigh Bors and family the next time we Are awakened by the sound of sirens in the Middle of the we will not curse the intrusion upon our sleep rather understand that it too May be someone who needs help from the Many professionals within our Community who work to keep our communities and lives Safe from harms Paul Osterwald Winnipeg statement about Bank false in the article sew up tax loopholes for choices which appeared in the free press on Decem Ber an unsubstantiated claim was made that companies like Royal Bank Are Able to avoid paying a cent in in the Case of Royal Bank this statement is completely in during the tax year raised in the the Bank paid million in get and other this compares to our total net in come for the year of in in four out of the last five Royal Bank has paid More in taxes than it has earned in net in and in our total tax Bill exceeded in the area of income the Bank excluding profitable Domestic and foreign subsidiaries reported a tax recovery in 1992 largely be cause it had a pretax loss of Bil this tax recovery was greater than the Federal and provincial in come taxes paid by these excluded which amounted to we would have welcomed an Opportunity for input in the Arti it May have helped to provide balance and to ensure that the facts were accurately Bannister retail Royal Bank of Canada Manitoba 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 letters maybe 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 Between factual reporting and Edito rial the Media continually cry about the Peoples right to but at the same time make the decision As to and How much information will be Given to the they dramatize and sensationalize relatively mundane however the worst result of me Dia influence is the dramatic in crease in incidents of civil Dis Obedi it is my firm belief although the Media May not be or directly these unlawful by giving them full cover they Are encouraging these a it might help your which is definitely being if the line Between reporting and editorial comment was More sharply and properly Andrew Schaen Winnipeg seat Belt Law is not fair my son was driving in from the country to see me on boxing Day when he was stopped by the police and Given a ticket for not having his seat Belt that was a very upsetting Way to end our Christmas we Are very angry Over a Law that is extremely let the people who wish to buckle up do but those who do not should be Given the they should not be forced to by a Law that is very unfair and Lundemo next telling us what foods we should eat by Law because they think it will be Good for we will have no Choice any More As to what we eat or do at All where we or How we is that democracy let us not give up our freedoms one by Joa Armitage Winnipeg int there anybody else in your books Section of Decem Ber Clayton manness is quoted As saying that he is trying to finish two books on and that he is beginning to believe that Educa tors have or never really what education was meant to this is after having read two whole books on the manness will have a better understanding of education than those of us who have been working with students Darin and layout for perhaps manness will be willing to Tell us exactly who decided what education was meant to and at what precise moment in human history this decision was Tak was it the ancient greeks come Nius John Dewey Dewey and Louie Are the conservative Bac benches so intellectually null and void that we must have manness foisted upon us int there anybody else out there Chuck Kroeker Winnipeg use funds Media not there to help poor to shape opinion i agree More with Glen Pinnello letter to the editor of de Cember 31 Media help shape the Media Are not there to shape opinion but to provide us with the facts so that we May form our own facts free of As Wishful thinking and re Porter or editorial Given All of the we will reach our own without need of any shaping from the me it is sad enough that the Media control pretty Well what information we Are without them attempt ing to influence our what has happened in the past 30 or 40 is a blurring of the line i am appalled after hearing recently of two women in their fifties and sixties being artificially made planet Earth does not have an in Fertility enormous resources Are spent in the industrialized countries on re search into technologies which in crease the Fertility of the similarly huge resources Are spent controlling the Fertility of the poor in the developing we should Stop All funding to re search and technologies for increasing Fertility use these funds to assist the poor in the developing countries to grow their own food on their own Markman Andersen Anne Dairy Industry efficient by Louis Balcaen to the free press on an Issue As important As the future of some Canadian jobs and the future food Security of this it is disturbing to see opinion portrayed As fact Fred Ottawa new tax on i would like to provide the following information on Points raised by Cleverley so that Manitoba Consumers have the Opportunity to form their opinions on the basis of fact not q the proposed Canadian Tariff Levels on Dairy and poultry products under the new g att agreement in calculating its Tariff Canada has employed the method used by the european a method which has been accepted by the Canadian Farmers in it yields to both the and dec very similar Tariff equivalents Canadian Farmers did not receive any More Protection than those in other q the efficiency of Canadas Dairy producers the food and agriculture organization based in has reported that Between 1971 and milk production per cow in Canada increased 75 per cent compared to 45 per cent for the United states and just Over 30 per cent for new during that Canada has led the world in the sales of Dairy cattle genetics which is tangible proof that the system has not made us further evidence of the Industry efficiency can be found in consumer Price Index from 1988 to the retail Cost of All items included in the Chi Rose by 20 per cent while the Cost of Dairy products Rose Only per during that same Dairy Farmers received an increase of Only per cent in the far Gate Price of it is interesting to note that during that same the Price of commodities that Are not under the Protection of Supply management More per cent beef per cent bread 11 per cent and Margarine 12 per q Cost of production for setting prices this is probably one of the most transparent Price setting mechanisms for food in the formula and costs used to Price milk sold for skim milk and ice Cream production Are reviewed nationally by a government appointed committee of of which Only two Are Dairy other members Are consumer Dairy processors and a representative of grocery the Cost data used in arriving at the Cost of production is such that Only on third of the most efficient Dairy producers receive their full Cost of the remainder eventually leave the Industry or choose to work at subsistence level it is interesting to note once again that the attrition rate of Canadian Dairy producers has been almost the same As Dairy producers at around five per cent per Price of milk at the provincial the Price of milk sold for fluid consumption is regulated by a government appointed of which one of the five members is an Active Dairy q lower food prices across the line Anthony a Rural political economist at the University of wrote in the Globe and mail on december 1993 the far Gate Price Farmers themselves receive for such suppl managed commodities As Chicken and milk is in fact Only marginally higher in than it is in the United for the Price is a bit under per pkg in the United in Canada a bit Over the big difference comes in the retail which in Ontario averages around per pkg compared with in the United the same although not As exists for a comprehensive study conducted by agriculture and agr food Canada found based on regular Consumers in Border cities paid Only slightly less 10 per cent for Dairy products than Consumers in anyone who has travelled Between 1971 and milk production per cow in Canada increased 75 per response a column open to further South in the United states knows that fluid milk retail prices there Are As High As if not higher than in q those whose jobs depend on the orderly marketing of Dairy and poultry products estimates put the number of canadians whose jobs Are related in some Way to the processing and marketing of eggs and poultry at close to in an Industry which generates billion of economic activity most Supply managed commodities offer the highly coveted value added jobs that guarantee canadians a Safe Supply of High Quality those whose futures rest on the final negotiated Levels of tariffs and Market Access Are far More numerous than Canadas i have some difficulty in following Cleverley convoluted logic that the Public would be better served if Canadas Supply managed Farmers were supported through a special if the suggestion is in unlike our neighbors to the whose Farmers have come to depend on tax based subsidies to such an extent that they no longer recognize they Are Canadian Farmers who operate under Supply management prefer to get their returns from those who choose to buy their products rather than from the pockets of All Canadian according to the National milk producers based in the Dairy inventory Export funded by the government kept the Price file photo a Board reviews formula used to Price milk for file photo received by Farmers during 1993 at least a Hundred weight higher than it would otherwise have been about seven per studies sponsored by both the Canadian government and the Industry in the late 80s and Early 90s identified subsidies that support Dairy Farmers to a level that would represent a government support equivalent up to 33 per cent of our Price in one of the firms doing this research Grey Clark and Shih had previously provided data to the Ontario Corn growers association which led to a successful countervail action against Corn exports to this suggests their findings were highly on the Issue of the poor being disadvantaged As a result of Supply Dairy Farmers have considerable sympathy for those who Are less As evidenced by the recent introduction of a voluntary program by which producers provide milk to Manitoba food let us not be led astray by the argument that Supply management has been unfair to the canadians consistently rank second lowest in the world in terms of the percentage of disposable income spent on Dairy products Over the period 1969 to expenditures on Dairy products dropped from per cent to per cent of disposable in Canadian Consumers spent just 13 per cent of their disposable income on having just come through the Holiday season when most Manitoban partook of Bountiful tables supplied with Quality products from Manitoba egg and Dairy let us not forget that while Manitoban were those same Farmers continued with their in the Case of Dairy cows were milked and fed twice a Day before any festivities could be Louis Balcaen is chairman of the Manitoba milk producers marketing ;