Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 22, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editor David 6977042 focus Winnipeg free press a 7 april Canada faces major Challenge Canada faces the greatest Challenge to its survival As a from the threat of the separation of Quebec from separation is being engineered by Lucien Bouchard and Jacques Parizeau to satisfy egos fuelled by their own sovereignty association is a myth dispelled by Bou Chard in addressing an american the word is Parizeau made a very interesting comment English canadians should face a makeup the government of Canada seems to be showing callous indifference to the nationalistic fantasies of Bouchard and by not placing before the citizens of Quebec the Pitfalls they will face on before a referendum is it is at que Bec that a makeup Call should be i there must be tabled in the House of commons articles of Sepa let the Cost and consequences of separation be clearly spelled the costly Experiment of bilingualism would become the 28 per cent of francophone in government would have to make Way to satisfy the aspirations of the new canadians who now form a Large part of our treaties made by Canada with other coun tries would have to be aboriginals in Quebec would be come the sole responsibility of que Bec As treaties were made with the Crown and defence Indus tries would have to be relocated to the proportional Cost of the physical assets in Quebec paid for by the Canadian taxpayer would have to be including of course Quebec share of the National a corridor to the Atlantic provinces would have to be no longer would Quebec be part of the Canadian monetary All pre Vious Canadian government pen Sions paid to Quebec citizens would become the responsibility of the new the list of pay backs is As Canadas status is reduced can Ada will no doubt lose its coveted position among the group of seven and become a poor player in International Winnipeg Young people Are great our Young people Are How Many Young people today would Stop and help you i know of thanks to Lisa Dave Jef Jason Anderson and Don my who helped my Jack in his time of he suffered a fatal heart attack on March 27 and the car ended up on the Boulevard on Pembina these Young people stayed with him and made him comfortable until help these people were Complete strangers to yet Lisa and Dave came to the funeral and talked with putting our minds at my hats off to these Young their families should be very proud of my children and i Are truly grate Merle Bryson Winnipeg Volunteer work is a privilege being asked to join one of Winni pegs nonprofit boards is a privilege earned by individuals who have demonstrated their commitment to enhancing life in their it is an Honor not to be taken the role of a Board member is to work As a team with other Board to review and determine and above All to support their organizations fundraising Active whether the task involves calling on businesses for stuff ing envelopes or staffing Booths to sell lottery every Board member is responsible for doing their millions of dollars Are raised every year in Winnipeg this in his april 8 Maurice Switzer makes a mockery of those organizations that he has the Privi lege of he refers to his hardworking colleagues on the Manitoba opera Board As lacking in sophistication even though they represent some of Winnipeg finest Community his commitment to the health sciences Centre foundation Board an other privilege is questioned by his remarks that it does not have to scramble to reach fundraising objectives because they Are a household those of us have served on 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 number letters maybe submitted through the internet at . Letters sent via the internet obviously cannot be but must include Home address and Telephone the health sciences Centre foundation Board know that they Are not so the health sciences Centre foundation Board is represented by some very dedicated vol who regardless of their daily work make time to sell their allotment of lottery As far As Switzer privilege to serve on the Winnipeg Art gallery Board his colleagues might question the sincerity with which he supports the As it appears that All he remembers of their deliberations is the coughing and pouring of his As a former Board i can not help wondering what Switzer colleagues must think of his attempt to trivialize All their this is surely not supportive of any Orga volunteers have built this City and its very Fine and Chari table Volunteer funding is vital to the enhancement of these fundamental assets of our commune it is inexcusable for a person in Switzer privileged position to Ridi Cule the hard work of so Many thou Sands in our Diane Mcdonald Board sciences Centre Winnipeg symphony Manitoba theatre heritage Volunteer Centre of Johns Balmoral and past Vic president of the Junior league of Winnipeg other teams deserve coverage the Points listed in Ryan Melniks letter of april 16 were dead too would have liked to have had the Opportunity to see teams other than the Toronto Maple Leafs on the Csc this nothing can be done for this sea sons As the regular season is now i Hope that the Csc and ten take notice that fans Are and change their hockey program Ming format next Winnipeg concerned about littering i am concerned about i do not like the Way it looks when there is garbage All Over the when people come from different provinces or they Proba Bly think it is very i wish people would quit throwing garbage on the i guess peo ple just dont realize when they throw one piece of garbage on the it adds up to a lot of Rachel Woodhouse Winnipeg poking fun at life in response to Mcmahon let Ter of March although in sure Lindor Rey nolds Doest need anyone to stick up for in going to theres a word in the spelled if you look it up i be Lieve you May find an explanation for most of what Reynolds she pokes fun at sometimes its easier to laugh at this world we live dont take yourself or your profession so she obviously want being either malicious or Seim sure she didst look in even one having just purchased a newer i can vouch for her claim of Orange shag we even saw some up the front of a wet bar and we laughed about it in the car lighten next week Shell pick some other profession to sati lisaspk1ngman Winnipeg nuke joke echoes anger farm products dispute heats up Washington North Dakota senator Kent Conrads explosive joke about getting canadians attention by aiming 300 nuclear weapons at them was an extreme Way of underlining the importance of the durum wheat dispute to his farming he subsequently made Clear that he did not mean literally what he said at wednesdays Senate agriculture committee hearing telling the free press i very much regret if anyone misinterpreted the Tenor of my it was an overstatement of a real political Issue in his state and such As some of Conrads farming who say they Are being Hurt financially by Canadas rising durum sales in the United talk about it vehemently to All three of their elected Federal they sometimes act by blocking Cross Border highways to Canadian trucks carrying seek action they May or May not be mollified by the Clinton administrations plan to ask in Geneva today for action against these sales by the world Trade the doubt arises because nothing but talks can happen for 90 Days under the rules of the general agreement on tariffs and it is not certain that this Gatt action will come to fruition because it requires congressional legislative action that May not be easy to Conrads outburst was not completely out of tune with the Canad denouncing Harmony being Sung to the committee by agriculture Secretary Mike Espy and Trade representative Mickey speaking of the bilateral discussions about disputes Over sugar and sugar containing Espy told the committee that we Are very disappointed at the attitude that they have Kantor could not get out quickly enough the word absolutely when Conrad asked him if this is not a Case of the United being the victims of unfair treatment the said want their cake and eat it a grim faced used some rare humor to make a Sharp accusing Canada of wanting Conrads joke underlined importance of wheat Washington editor David Macdonald it both he said they want no More Access in and poultry they want More and More Access in sugar containing products and All those Peanut Farmers in Canada that you Are aware of we Haven found them yet but were still looking for this was a reference to the fact that Canada has no Peanut Only Peanut who import peanuts from such countries As China and turn them into Peanut paste and ship them to Industrial customers in the United Peanut growers Are protected from direct Competition from such countries by a rigid system of has the right to do what it is doing under the free Trade arguments about the size of Phil free press arguments about size of imports of durum wheat keep surfacing in the political imports of durum wheat grown in Manitoba and Saskatchewan keep surfacing in the political Arena because of intermittent political pressure from durum growing Washington Trade attorney Tom Jolly says it is not a substantive Trade Issue but totally and purely a political Issue and its been that right from the very he Points out that the last time it heated up seriously was when president Bill Clinton was seeking votes to pass the North american free Trade there was an attempt to get emergency action to Block Canadian durum imports of they this is very Good politics Back Home for them and theres a lot of emotion but i dont think you would find three knowledgeable people in that would look you in the Eye and say this is a substantive the Clinton administration has the Power under Section 22 of a 1933 Law to Block Canadian durum imports by declaring an Clinton has not yet used that though he has used a separate Section 22 authority to order the International Trade commission to investigate the although the it will not report until the Clinton administration is now seeking redress under the rarely used article 28 of the Gatt since the goal in the Gatt procedure would be to negotiate with Canada a quota limiting annual durum wheat imposing punitive tariffs on any durum sales beyond that congressional action is senator Conrad said to make any change in our Tariff schedule would require congressional the administration has suggested that that might be done in the Gatt implementing which is a matter that the Congress will take up later this As in Canada and All Gatt member the United states must pass legislation giving the recently signed Uruguay round Deal the Force of As with the fat and this implementing legislation will be handled on a fast meaning no amendments Are Conrad said the reason Why the administration had preferred to try an article 28 under Gatt rather than emergency Section 22 curbs under Law was that a Section 22 would have limited life to it because under the new Gatt agreement a Section 22 action would have to end when the Gatt is whereas an article 28 has no such Cloud on horizon an article 28 he is fully Gatt Legal and if Canada and the United states could not solve their dispute within the allowed 90day negotiating period then there would be a change to the Tariff schedule on wheat and whatever else would be such As and Sublimity on As a Cloud on the horizon is the current possibility that it will be difficult to get Gatt implementing legislation through budget rules require paying for lost Tariff Revenue in any one year by making cuts Kantor estimates about billion in Revenue will be lost by complying with the new Gatt this provides an opening for article 28 such As the 18 senators who sent Clinton a letter this week opposing curbs on Canadian durum several of them Are on the Pivotal Senate finance committee and could refuse support for the Gatt legislation unless the article 28 approval is stripped out doonesbury by Garry Trudeau its a Ishmit some sort of5pacz Miae youre 0ein6 to Iasi Linping i itha5 h5vava sup new strange ri6ht 1mntthat so 1 pos5i8w gotta Stu Fay the finout i hear ;