Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 1, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba Readers forum Winnipeg free press a 7 october rim proposal could create a real tax Jungle Jason spokesman for the Canadian taxpayers thinks Ontario idea for a Federal provincial tax Swap is Ottawa would give up the majority share of income taxes to the provinces and in re take Over the sales tax if this proposal would go a Long Way towards simplifying Canadas incredibly complicated tax says experts if implement they Ontario idea would go a Long Way towards creating a real tax those confused by 10 different sales taxes will be bewildered by 10 different personal income tax re into the Ottawa would lose a major lever to manage the National the country would become even More decentralized and Balkans Zed the possibility of a Bermuda style tax Haven right next door the poorer provinces and regions would Sud Denly get a lot poorer and the Abil Ity of powerful special interest lob Bies to have their Way with a series of Small governments would take a quantum who wins who loses the Ontario scheme Calls for the Revenue a provinces sales tax raises to be ceded by Ottawa in in come tax for this Manitoba retail sales tax will raise Ottawa share of income billion and Ottawa in come tax Revenue would drop to while Manitoba would increase to the numbers Tell the the Swap gives the provinces Primacy in income As an on Tario finance department official Means calling the we want More control Over the personal income she we want control Over the tax Ontario wants to decide the the brackets and the in Stead of provincial income taxes being a percentage of the Federal taxpayers would fill out two separate tax As Quebe cers do but unlike the other provinces would still expect Ottawa to be their tax University of Manitoba economist Jim Dean says Ottawa Pri Macy in personal and corporate in come taxes is integral to its ability to set fiscal and economic income tax revenues Are Auto Matic they enable the government to moderate the extremes of Boom and calculations show that Between on third and on half of the swings in the Economy Are dampened by the effect of income and corporate tax Dean Points out that loss of fed eral control Over income tax policy could Lead to race to the Bottom Competition among provinces to attract wealth and in Winnipeg North Centre Liberal my David Walker is parliamentary Secretary to finance minister Paul were being very careful not to say we wont discuss he but were not keen to head in that it would make any Federal government very vulnerable trying to fight a what this really Means is that the provinces want us to carry the can for any broadening of the sales tax Manitoba finance minister Eric Stefanson says this unlike Doest want to set income tax Only to have input into we need a National Standard for taxable the minister con but we would like some joint Federal provincial protocol that would allow us input and drive changes to the income tax Manitoba likes the idea of the tax Swap because it eliminates one area of double Stefanson prefers taking Over the income tax to assuming control Over the sales tax because income taxes provide More Manitoba reluctance to go As far As Ontario in setting income tax policy Only intensifies the potential for a tax Jungle under the tax a Checkerboard Canada is the Central danger of disentanglement and University of Alberta economist Kenneth Norrie says disentangle ment and devolution heightens in Ter regional Given the great differences in fiscal Capaci ties among Calls for devolution Are generally accompanied by a proposal that the equalization program be expanded As needed to offset fiscal he writes in the summer Issue of policy the publication of the Canadian Institute for re search on Public but As Ottawa is pushed closer to the margins of social and economic decision its readiness to be the federations Milch cow will it is entirely possible that a Point would be reached where the Federal government would lose its will to maintain the equalization program at anywhere near its cur rent level of thus the Cost of devolution might Well be less inter regional Norrie therapists deserve say on syndrome regarding your feature articles on false memory syndrome free the persons involved in the controversy who were not Given a voice Are the therapists who supposedly dredge up memories or Plant suggestions in the minds of vulnerable and we would like a fair first we would like to Point out that false memory syndrome is not a syndrome in the usual sense of the word that is to it is not a clinical but rather a buzzword coined by a Well funded lobby group containing significant numbers of persons accused of sex Ual As lawyer Jeff Gindin is quoted As theres a lot of strategy involved in the widespread Public Ity about and use by defence Law yers of this supposed we Are concerned that the Only two experts quoted by your re Porter in his supposedly balanced coverage of a controversial Issue were both Strong supporters of this Case for the it is interesting that the article moved from the opinions of one male authority to the next with the phrase on the other even though both were on the same Side of the a lot of in and some of it possibly engaged in unconsciously As we All Are seduced by the false Comfort of collective we As therapists do not wish to deny the possibility that the interaction Between an impressionable Cli ent and an overeager therapist might create confusion in the mind of a but we would contend that such incidents Are very rare in to suggest otherwise is to ignore a vast body of clinical evidence Simi Lar to the experience recounted by local lawyer Joan Dawkins who re Calls the memories came Back to me suddenly and in a very Clear it is also to Fly in the face of logic since we As human beings tend Natu rally to avoid Why would any one choose to create memories that cause internal anguish and painful disruption of important relation ships Why would a whose mandate and goal Are to facilitate Plant memories that would Hurt their clients does gain by casting doubt on the veracity of abuse victims and the compe tence of those who seek to help them we believe that your coverage of the false memory syndrome is through giving insufficient voice to abuse victims and to the therapists who try to walk with them through the genuine grief and Hurt that is stirred up by uncovering old has great potential to Hurt our As abused children they were told that what was happening want Hap pening the abuse was a or a or a Way daddies show they love their children and that it really didst they were warned that if they told the truth about what was happening to them they would be called liars and shamed and reject so for Many years they pretended to themselves that the abuse didst happen or want and they didst Tell now that they Are speak ing their will the the Media and society at Large continue to collaborate to make the abusers threats an ongoing reality As we devoutly Hope lets Wake up and listen to truth even when wed rather not hear it lets ask the uncomfortable questions and lets Stop re victimizing victims and intimidating their help Richard hearing Marilyn Linda mss interfaith marriage and family Institute Winnipeg boards serve a purpose i am writing in response to a 19 column by Fred Cleverley titled Why we have to pay so Cleverley messages follow the theme the grass is always Greener on the other Side of the particularly when the facts Are used Cleverley quotes from another author alleging that marketing boards Are the cause of higher prices on some grocery products in Canada compared to the another author quoted Points to marketing boards for maintaining uneconomic production the impression left for the Reader is very get rid of marketing boards and Well pay less for some grocery simple yes a look for a moment at some facts on egg prices As an example egg production is under a marketing Board y recent retail prices in Canada have averaged a 3 during retail egg prices in new York and California were about or equivalent to Ca j in the accounting firm Ernst Young reported on a egg prices were about 12 per cent lower in the at that tune the Canadian Dollar traded at about with our Dollar around egg prices Are about equal in the two q to truly compare the and Canadian egg production and marketing one should add tax payer support into the the Ca Nadian system is self financing there Are no government support programs for egg in the there Are a variety of taxpayer funded most notably the Export enhancement the keep allows the to dump sur pluses onto world markets and avoid depressing Domestic 0 most Consumers will have experienced loss Lea Dering by retail ers on both sides of the Border and particularly Border towns to attract these Dis counted prices Are not indicative of the prevailing retail prices in an q does Cleverley realize that the retail Price of eggs in Canada has risen per cent since 1981 compared to per cent for All food items the Price the producer receives has risen nine per How does this relate to marketing boards As a cause of Why we have to pay so much my annoyance with Cleverley article is perhaps a reaction to what seems to be the Standard of journal ism that is Sim potentially misleading and wherever Catchy and sen Cleverley would do Well to develop a better understanding of agriculture policies in the and Canada before creating an impression that the is Penny Kelly Manitoba egg millionaire baseball players Are fighting billionaire at the expense of those of us who pay to watch its time for sports fans to regain control it is ironic that the free press of september 14 contained three stories which give us an idea of Why our sports scene is in a state of in we have millionaire baseball players fighting billionaire at the expense of those of us who pay to watch they Are right about one thing we have had enough and most of us probably do not care if they remain on strike in Val Weiers he writes about pro sport salaries being out of they certainly and i think his views on the necessity of keeping the jets Here have a lot of the taxpayers of Winnipeg and of Manitoba have already cast their each time they stay away from a game they should be showing the their owners and our politicians that they cannot afford this any the higher the salaries the higher the Price of tickets and everything else including parking and the front Page of the sports Section featured an article on a local named Nikki a volleyball who lost her fight with cancer on she played for the love of the our pros seem to have forgotten that the million Dollar salaries and endorsements Are the result of a game at which they happen to they that if the paying customer does not come out to the game and refuses to watch them on they will soon be looking for alternate there wont be Many making anywhere near a million dollars a i dont begrudge them their Money but it should have a meaningful pay an athlete a fair salary but make him earn the rest based on Bonus Money for reaching the playoffs and More for the personal milestones could also be factored into the paying million Dollar contracts to a team that finished second last makes no business sense at in most there would be no raises for such a poor there would be a much better Chance of someone losing their the time has come for the sports fan to regain we dont need the Winnipeg jets nor do we need major league there is enough Good Amateur sport around to satisfy the needs of every fan in any sport these like Nikki play for the love of the game and certainly show More desire than most professional Brian Brown Winnipeg 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 tetters Are less Likely to be please address letters to letters to the Winnipeg free 1355 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Letters sent via the internet obviously cannot be but must include Home address and Telephone View Newborn intensive care positively the article baby saving feat has unfortunate Side free 22 shows How and report ers influenced by that can take very positive results and twist them to sound very what the statistics say is 14 years babies born under two pounds had Little Chance of survival and with the Newborn intensive care units Many of these premature infants now u even the smallest of these pre mature babies have at least a 50 percent Chance of having a Normal and one would assume that the larger babies have an even bigger Chance of having a Normal q Only 21 per cent of Only the smallest babies were that Means that even in the smallest of these 79 per cent were not mentally challenged but q Twentyfive per cent had extremely poor including four babies who were this Means that 75 per cent were born with Normal these Are extremely positive Sta considering the mortality rate of these premature babies Only 14 years before Newborn Intel Siv care units were my eighty Earold granddaughter was born three months premature and was saved by treatment in the Newborn intensive care unit in it took about 18 months for her to catch up to her age group now she is a Normal size for her has a High and excels in she has no trouble with her she is a very Beautiful and Delight Ful were it not for the Intel Siv care unit being in place she would not have i dont know Why these very Posi Tive statistics were slanted by the reporter to sound so negative press could mislead the Public to support the government should they decide to save Money by eliminating these Newborn Intel Siv care units from the that would be a horrible mistake and a grave injustice to the parents of these Beth Horoski Winnipeg doonesbury by Garry Trudeau i want to thank i know ;