Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 18, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editor David 6977042 focus Winnipeg free press a 7 april Stop cutting Hospital jobs regarding the unbelievable article in the free press on april 9 entitled Hospital jobs on the As a heart and stroke i had severe problems in the month of then on april i had a Holter Monitor put on by the health sciences and when the pain struck it was picked up on the Moni i was hospitalized at the health sciences Centre and it was deter mined that my pacemaker needed to be this was done april the head of the Pace maker works Only half Days and has an extremely heavy work you cannot imagine How amazed i was when i saw the news paper Story of the Hospital jobs on the that is absolutely Ludi let them Cut Back the number of ministers and let them Cut out the entertainment and travel but dont Cut any further Hospital i was in for three and on half Days and experienced the result of the last on there was very Little this is an absolute i do not blame the but rather the government right up to the i had further complications again on april 11 and when you see what an outstanding Job the people at health sciences Centre it is frustrating that the Hospital suffers when there Are so Many wasted Dol Lars spent on foolishness and people cheating the saving Peoples lives is not a discretionary government cutting out Hospital jobs does Cut Down on patients chances of healthy Sidney Trepel Winnipeg laying Down the Law in his april Val Werier lays Down the Law for using the pro nouns which and his Law in conflict with several centuries of accepted from the 24th he that hath clean hands and a pure from Margaret Deirdre was exactly the kind of neurotic that she did her Best to avoid Here is Wilson Folletts Law in modern american usage shift freely Between that and who in personal restrictive Accord ing to which produces the greater ease and naturalness in the but he goes on to do not Force yourself to use that in personal restrictive clauses if you think it an artificial Way of referring to a after does not owe it to anyone to Swallow his on the other a writer should not turn his aversions into even Val than whom there is no one i enjoy Reading Jack Patterson Winnipeg infrastructure program vital Lloyd Axworthy complains that people denounce his without a Clear understanding of he does Little to help us he refused to say whether he would spend infrastructure funds on an he ducked questions about Universal old age he did not explain his offer to Guaran tee training and jobs for youth who forego their right to i and How can we guarantee As one Industry after another lays off peo ple what happens to participants in the program if jobs do not material ize his office could give me no an letters 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 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 letters May be submitted through the internet at . Letter sent via the internet obviously cannot be but must include Home address and Telephone Industrial and monetary if we finance at High through chartered Banks and for eign then we will find our selves at the end of it with new build Ings that we cant afford to new roads and Bridges that we cant pay a newly unemployed work and a higher debt than we can avoid this situation by financing the program with Low inter est Loans from the Bank of if the governor of the Bank our government should use its Legal authority to overrule we should also use the program to support Canadian Industry and Busi if we tender for the cheapest employ foreign contract and import machinery and we May save in the Short but at no lasting Benefit to if we give All contracts and jobs to and produce All machinery and technology in Cana we might have to create new fac tories and which would create Long term employment and permanently improve our government can use the Infra Structure program to make or break the wisely its benefits could be in isolation from other much needed it will be just what its de tractors claim a temporary and expensive make work Martha Owen Pinawa cyclists should use paths my route to work takes me Down Wellington Crescent a Bicy Cle pedestrian path was constructed some years ago along Wellington from the end of Academy Road to during each morning and evening Rush i am forced to wait for a break in oncoming traffic in order to safely pass a cyclist who refuses to use the virtually empty bicycle should i Stop at a controlled inter the same cyclist will invariably pass me along the when travelling the one Way drive through Assiniboine which again parallels a Cycle cyclists continually approach me Riding against the one Way and expect me to give them a i cannot fathom this Type of Incon Side ration by the same group want ing More bicycle paths at and other John Ford Winnipeg Speed limits Are too Low his task Force on social policy could further undermine Public con the tories blamed our debt on social to Reform meant yet a worthy has appointed people who advised Mulroney Arthur Deputy employment minis Ter when i benefits were slashed in with the same we fear the same to protect the special interests of the not the perhaps Axworthy frustrations Stem from the conflicts in his own party unless the depart ments of and Indus try All change the econ omy will continue to the debt will continue to grow and debt payments will continue to Drain needed funds from social without a Strong he can do Little More than reshuffle scarce re the Liberal infrastructure pro which he is will help our Economy Only if it is com biped with this is in reply to your april 8 Arti Cle on lower speeds on Wall and Erin it seems people in this City will not be Happy until there is a stoplight or sign or 50kilometresperhour Speed limits everywhere in the Speed limits Are already too slow on All our major thoroughfares and driving Here is a constant exercise in futility As a the 50 Kilometres is Fine for Side but Wall and Erin Are main routes that Are used extensively and 60 Kilometres is already 10to20 Kwh too slow likewise for route 90 and i too live on an often used people con stantly do 70 or faster with very Little or no complaints from if anything our main streets need increases of 10 to 20 Kwh in Speed proper Light synchronization and better educated Drivers which would Speed traffic lower Gas prevent Long lineups and ease Driver the Rea son people Speed so frequently is obvious limits Are too in other cities with Large freeway children Are taught very Early to stay away from them and How and when to Cross properly and Dave Lindsay Winnipeg stick handling to Reform Maze of subcommittees debating health care in Washington Steckhan doing healthcare Reform through the Congress this year is going to be complicated by the fact that up to a dozen hands May be holding the stick at any one these hands will belong to the Heads of a dozen committees in the Senate and House of represent each of which has at least some jurisdiction Over the issues involved in trying to overhaul a system that costs a is very bureaucratic and leaves millions of americans with no health cover age at it is a legislative process quite different from that seen in Cana Das parliament when handling such a major in the government of the Day would introduce a Bill that would go through three readings in the House of assured passage by the governments parliamentary it would be considered by the Senate then after to the governor general for Signa during parliamentary consideration in both there would be an Opportunity for Public the process works this Way be cause the government of the Day combines control of the legislature with control of executive in the governing constitutional authority is divided three the the executive and the judiciary Are Sepa rate and equal each with different final version both Chambers of the Federal legislature can initiate legislation on a Given although the final version sent to the president for signature will be a blend of each Chambers the president Heads the executive which carries out the the supreme court can review legislation for compliance with the the relevance of this to health Reform is that a Bill written by the Clinton administration and introduced in the Senate and House last november is a presidential re quest rather than a prime ministerial Clinton is the top figure in the democratic which controls both Chambers of but he cannot Tell a single Democrat in either How to vote on a presidential he must try to persuade As Clinton did successfully last fall when he wanted Naftal Legisla Tion to go in the the democrats have 256 the republicans have there is one Independent and there Are two in the the democrats have 5644 despite the Public routine of Democrat Republican clashes on Many of the real confrontations Over legislation Are based on competing regional on social attitudes or on individual political requiring the building of Issue by is party loyalty is demo cratic control of both does not mean that democratic leaders can deliver voting support on an Issue such As health in addition to every Democrat feeling free to vote As he or she pleases on every there is the complication of a committee sys tem in which each chairman feels like an Independent there Are 18 committees and 74 subcommittees in the 100member there Are 23 committees and 119 subcommittees in the 435 member it was worse Early this when the Senate had 74 committees and the House had an example of what it can mean to have so Many committees and up photo healthcare Reform passing through the political system takes a complicated Washington editor David Macdonald each with a bit of is the Fate of the environmental Protection it must report to 90 committees and health Reform legislation Falls under the jurisdiction of three House committees and two Senate each of these committees has the right to write a health re form Bill of its which could be a duplicate of Clinton plan but More Likely would be different in various a further six House committees and five Senate committees have jurisdiction Over subject areas that will be part of health Reform below All these committees Are which can produce their own specimen Bills to address part or All of health since All committees and sub committees have democratic a at least one Republican Bill is Likely to be offered on the floor of each since democratic supporters of a Canadian style single payer system Domi Nate no committee or sub commit they May Well offer a single payer Bill on the floor of the Clinton cant Tell democrats How to subcommittee Bills or recommendations will come from Basic discussion of the main which will help the senior commit tees of each chamber that must write their own when each committees Bill has been drafted and it will go to the leadership of each whose Job it is to negotiate a Compromise Overall version for separate Dis Cussion by the full membership of each unlike the free Trade agreement and which required a straight yes or no vote with no amendments the Compromise Bill in each Cham Ber will be open to substitution with competing majority vote after a majority vote in each chamber for one both Bills will go to a conference committee of both to Iron out a final Compromise that this joint version will go Back to House and Senate to be then it will be sent to the White House for Clinton signature or at the almost nothing has Only the health sub committee of the House ways and Means committee has completed hearings on health Reform and produced a it differs from Clinton proposal and passed by one Texas concerned about too much govern ment joined the four republicans in this vote and some of the heated rhetoric in the subcommittees hearings gives an indication of How difficult it will be to Craft a widely acceptable so does the fact that the health and environment subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce 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