Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 4, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba 44 pages vol 12no 153 publications mail of filtration no 0b6 4h Winnipeg free press get Post Affif set Post by weekly to Iryne 1 m inn Picq 1 it do i Post May 1994 child support ruled tax free Federal Appeal possible by John Douglas National reporter Ottawa up to Manitoba children could be among the real winners in a Federal court decision yesterday that effectively gives child support payments tax free the Federal court of in a 21 ruling declared Ottawa is not allowed to collect taxes from recipients of child support the Federal government has 30 Days to decide if it will allow Susan Thibaudeau of to Al Ter Canadian divorce history or if it will Appeal her Case to the supreme court of at stake is not just in taxes Thibaudeau owes on in support pay ments dating Back to but about million Ottawa collects every year on such the court found the income tax act discriminates on the basis of family calling custodial parents a disadvantaged if allowed to the ruling could Force the renegotiation of thousands of marriage settlements where a percentage of the pay ment is already earmarked for in inside Story parents hoping for change b3 come some say it could mean More delinquent Mona of the Manitoba association of women and the said children will Benefit there Are currently More than Manitoba families divided by those families Are Esti mated to include up to Chil Brown said in a family where the divorce settlement has one spouse paying annually in yesterdays decision could mean now paid in taxes would instead go to the what you Are really doing by taxing support payments to single Parent moms is really taking food out of the Mouths of children be cause most of them live Well below the poverty Brown the result of this Case is that she will have More in her for a Mother who has to Tell their children no All too that Money is the difference Between sending your kids to birthday Par having Money to let them take piano lessons or play Ken free press single Mother Margaret with daughter is ecstatic about women pay taxes on sup port said she will press the Cabinet to accept the judgment and write a new tax others who fought to change the Law hailed the ruling As a the level of child support was not always adequate and the tax on that was really adding to poverty in said Francois Dumaine of the National Antipoverty organi this ruling will certainly give single moms a female Liberal maps Are urging finance minister Paul Martin to accept the Beryl a Liberal Back Bencher who has Long argued that Martin promised to study tories reach out and touch its by Paul Samyn legislature reporter the Filmon government had a hand in 200 layoffs at Manitoba Telephone sys tem even though the Crow owned util Ity is supposed to be beyond the reach of workweek reduction finance minister Eric Stefanson confirmed he directed the Crown corporation Council to inform its it should reduce its payroll by an amount equal to the Cut Days unpaid holi Day on Public sector it was indicated to its that they were expected to achieve the same level of Stefanson said we expect consistency across the while its was hit by the so called Filmon fridays last it is exempt from the provincially imposed workweek reduction pro Gram since coming under Federal labor its president of Pedde said the first Lay offs at the Utility since 1932 Are expected to save As much As even though its saw net earnings grow to million last year and expects similar re turns this Pedde said it had to reduce costs to get the Utility fiscal House in we have the most anaemic balance Sheet of any Telephone company in Pedde referring to mass Pedde said layoffs were the Only option left after unions representing mass work ers rejected an offer to save jobs by opting for the Filmon Friday but employee Craig Gilchrist said workers have already Given up Gilchrist was fuming Over a news release is sued by the Utility yesterday that referred to wage concessions its employees made in 1932 which helped minimize there trying to make it look like the peo ple in 1994 dont want to consent to said the 32year we already bit the Bullet last year and now there asking us to do it again Maggi Hadfield of the Energy and paper workers Union of said its rejected other cos cutting its told us very clearly that the Money had to come out of our she the workers her Union represents voted 75 per cent against taking mass work reduction the telecommunications employees association of Manitoba said it was concerned its members never even got to vote on mass Job saving the layoffs will take effect in late August or Early 27yearlong occupation ends Israel make peace from the news services Cairo with today signing of an Accord giving Palestin ians their first taste of self Israel begins withdrawing troops from Gaza and end ing nearly 27 years of the jewish state also begins re leasing palestinians imprisoned Dur ing the struggle against and the first of palestinian police named by the Palestine liberation organization move into the Jericho area on the West Bank and the Gaza still tied to israeli a2 israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and Plo chairman Yasser Arafat were to sign the historic agreement at 3 am cd in an elaborate ceremony to Mark the first time israelis have turned land Over to the palestinians since the 1967 War that gave Israel control of Gaza and the West it analysts the greatest gesture Israel has made toward peace with its Arab it is the first time in history that the palestinian people will have their Chance to Rule themselves on their own chief palestinian negotiator Nabil Shaath this is not All that we but it is a be the first palestinian police offi cers of a Force of Are expected to drive from Egypt and Jordan in police cars today or to Israel also will release the first of palestinian palestinians expelled by Israel will Start to As More than six months of negotiations Drew to a palestinian delegates accused Israel of creating new obstacles and quibbling Over Arafat went so far As to storm out of the meetings Only to be persuaded to return a Short time the issues argued at the last min Ute were mostly ones that have Trou bled the talks throughout control of water and How much land Israel will cede around Jericho and How Many of israels More than palestinian prisoners will be freed under the sugar stalemate has growers looking South of the Border quote of the Day you cant get any than Elvis except i by Brad Oswald and Alice staff reporters if the Manitoba sugar and its employees wont talk to each the provinces sugar beet producers might listen to overtures from the and agriculture minister Harry Enns was pessimistic last night about the Industry future the president of the Manitoba sugar beet producers association confirmed yesterday that the organization has a letter from a Farmers cooperative in the red River Ken Yuill said if the labor dispute shuts Down the local producers will be forced to consider other opt insult Story sugar talks b3 we would maintain our Board in Manitoba and see what else we can he the president of the North Dakota based american Crystal sugar said the letter to Manitoba producers was just a Friendly reminder that their Southern neighbors Are there to help if american Crystal president Joe Famalette said there have been no formal talks Between the Coop and Manitoba if there is going to be they would have to be initiated from up not from Down the company recently appointed a sales manager to try to Market american crystals product to Manitoba the developments have left Enns pessimistic about the future of Manitoba sugar there is a serious problem with the Manitoba he i question the company ability to compete with the big american sugar giant that keeps trying to get a bigger Market Yuill said an Alliance with american part of a Coop owned by sugar beet producers in the portion of the red River is a Las resort that not really something we want to get into discussing right he but were not ruling anything were just hoping we can get something put together Here and then Down the Road Well look at All the Well have a Madei Manitoba David chief operating officer for Manitoba sugars Parent b c said the american Coop int interested in the health of this provinces sugar Only wants to dump its product on the Canadian they dont want our and they dont want our they just want our he Enns speculated that if the provinces sugar Industry producers close to the Border will continue to grow sugar but be Selling them to North Gavm nto Amman want of to late stagers v com word lot i Span ;