Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 20, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba A10 Winnipeg free april on third of borrowers unhappy with Bank maps draft says byword Mclntosh Canadian press Ottawa Banks Are making it tougher for Small business to borrow at a time when the Economy badly needs seed Mon says a draft report prepared for for the last three maps on the commons Industry committee have heard one horror Story after another from Smalto medium sized Busi Ness about difficulties obtaining Bank financing or keeping maps heard that Short notice changes in credit conditions left businesses scrambling to rearrange financial others complained that whole sectors Are be ing Cut adrift from the Bank financing system during Tough a prepared by staff of the Al party com Bank conduct code to protect Small b5 says these complaints have made it Concrete and visible that a third of Bank customers Are dissatisfied with their financial inst the report has been submitted to committee members for approval in closed session later this if the report would lend Cre Dence to a key election Promise by the liberals to deliver expansion capital to Small and medium sized the obtained yesterday by the Ca Nadian Points to a 28 per cent decline in outstanding Loans under from Early 1990 to late 1991 As a sign that the Small business com plaints could be this is suggesting to the committee that Banks might be changing their concept of what constitutes an acceptable part of the decline can be attributed to recession and the resulting reduction in loan the report what is is the fact that this contraction is concentrated at the smallest of loan More witnesses Are Tell ing us that even with the fragile recovery under Banks Are still tightening credit to Small businesses and virtually abandoning lending to certain should Banks be trying to become no risk lenders instead of Lowrick lenders As witnesses charged before the Small and medium sized business could face a Long term credit the report in testimony 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Fontaine for the next two Manitoba chiefs will continue their discus Sions on dismantling Indian affairs a process defined in an am Dis Cussion paper by former Indian affairs Deputy minister Don the discussion which Fon Taine has called a guiding lays out a series of six Steps through which the department of Indian affairs in Manitoba would be dismantled and aboriginal self government it has yet to be ratified by the As Sembly at during the first three Steps whose Cost was thrown into question last week first nations would study programs and services now administered by Indian Analyse ways to make them More a and then determine what legislative and administrative arrangements were the latter stages of the dismantling process whose Cost is Esti mated in the discussion paper to be in the tens of millions of dollars would see first nations designing the appropriate government Struc planning an implementation strategy and transferring Juristic in a letter to Fontaine april Irwin expressed 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