Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 2, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editor John 6977044 focus Winnipeg free press a q january Public schools Are full of values in suggesting that the Public school system no longer serves a useful Tom Oleson no More need for Public free 23 repeats old Arp but he is wrong to say that the Public schools Are they Are saturated with teachers do their level Best to instil in their students such values As co respect for other Obser Vance of human they Are not always successful and they work against great Odds but they certainly some of us would argue that schools also still have More than their share of conformity and other such like them or hate these Are also in one of the greatest advantages of the Public at their is their ability to introduce Stu dents to conflict and disagreement about to show them How to live peaceably with people who Dif Fer Over and to learn to Han dle value conflict reasonably and in doing they per form an invaluable service to Cana Dian this is not to say that All is schools can ride roughshod Over values that people hold histor they have been used to propagate the dominant no mat Ter what the Cost to How the debate Over values and schooling is part of what democratic living is All it is itself a civilizing it is one that is All too Likely to to our great if we were to follow Ole sons line that every group should be free to establish its own in such a we would All too quickly be come a collection of mutually exclusive with nothing in com Mon except Mutual suspicion and in in any the Public schools Are most certainly not they Are not about but about religious which is a very different like Many religious Ole son appears to assume that religion and and values and Are one and the but we All know of believers who do not Lead moral and nonbelievers who one can be moral without being to say that schools Are Val eneu trial is it does a great Disser vice to All those teachers who devote their working lives to helping Chil not Only to learn their sub but to live whatever Ole sons his comment is one More gratuitous shot in the Campaign to discredit the very idea of Public Ken Osborne Winnipeg poor parenting our and Tele visions have been giving us a con Stant barrage of stories involving House fires and the resulting everyone has jumped on the band Wagon to have childproof lighters made mandatory and to make sure smoke alarms Are i dont but i am amazed that it seems politically incorrect to address the main problem poor the time has come to Start correcting the problem at the the not the Brian Brown Winnipeg recall lighters with All the talk of Banning Ligh ters that Are not childproof from future Why has no one mentioned recall of the lighters that Are not Safe any lighter left in a drawer is still unsafe years later in kids Winnipeg physiotherapist shortage recently there has been much publicity in the free press and else where concerning the recruitment of physiotherapy graduates to the United As the regulatory body for the practice of apy in we Are writing to clarify several issues that have been of the 29 new physiotherapy graduates from the University of Mani Toba As of june registered with the regulatory Board to prac Tise physiotherapy m one person has since left to work in the As of this 83 per cent of the graduating class has remained to practise physiotherapy in there Are currently 490 practising physiotherapists in while six new graduates Are not registered with 11 people Are new registrants to these new registrants include peo letters to the editor the free press welcomes letters from letters must be signed and should include a dearly printed address and Telephone names will be published but not All tetters maybe 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 . Letters sent via the internet obviously cannot be but must include Home address and Telephone pie returning to Manitoba from other provinces and foreign Edu rated about five physiotherapists who Are licensable Are known to be residing awaiting immigration clearance in order to come to in 18 physiotherapists left the four of these people came to Manitoba and left within the seven of the people who went to other not necessarily the United As the organization whose Broad mandate is to protect the we Are concerned with the Public in ability to Access affordable and Ade quate physiotherapy in is occurring in several Rural areas where vacant physio therapy positions a number of these positions have been left vacant for a Long this raises the question of Why new physiotherapy graduates would leave family and submit to examinations and other require ments in order to work in another when jobs Are available and licensing is better salaries and the use of incentive plans in the Are part of the who be attracted by a increase in Sala relocation expenses and examination fees paid by employers at physiotherapists working in Manitoba do not receive special allowances to work in re Mote or Northern As Long As this problem is we will continue to experience a Drain of our own Manitoba educated physiotherapists to More lucrative Brend Mckechnie director the association of physiotherapists of Manitoba equal treatment is obsolete your 14 response article by Emmanuel criticizing Neil was entitled equal treatment the equal treatment is obsolete in Canadian labor employment equity replaces equal Opportunity treats individuals of different groups the it is equal employment equity treats individuals As members of groups such that All groups have similar Success the idea is that similar Success rates prove no discrimination is employment equity is full of Spe Cial words and each fac Tion in the Field insists on its own to it is its tools that affect and it is these tools that Are the two main tools of employment equity Are the accommodation of differences and affirmative managers generally accept the accommodation of this requires providing minor changes to workplaces or routine that allow someone to do the managers find affirmative action More Hir ing a minimally qualified person Over a More qualified in or Der to meet employment equity still causes moral problems for Many Many managers also have difficulty providing additional coaching or preferential duties to members of govern men designated the treatment of people As Mem Bers of groups deserving special rather than As i Dividu was once widely called pick questions the Validity of Bissoon dates opinions on the grounds of his Lack of formal credentials in political social or to my mind this Lack is no problem and no Given the original thought in Bissoon dates it presents us with a new perhaps it is govern multiculturalism such As Dick and his colleagues at the Canadian ethnic cultural whose opinions should be Keith Tarrant Winnipeg a miserly approach to multiculturalism ethnic redress claims not that costly special to the free press nicely timed for the Liberal government declared that Canadas sikh and ukrainian communities claims for redress had been dealt rising in the House of the Secretary of state for Sheila churlish by claimed these groups had collectively demanded hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation for past shedding Crocodile tears about How Ottawa has limited she declared no one would get not waiting for any debate Over her the Liberal maps rushed off to party away the see you next february and before we seasons greetings to All you merry sikh and of Fin stones Scrooge like cynicism wont by ignoring the Legal and moral precedent set by the redress settlement Given by deliberately lumping the six communities together despite their repeated requests that Ottawa not do so and by talking about the hundreds of millions these groups allegedly the minister pandered to ignorance and the subtext of her speech was that these ethnics want too that All of this is in our so Why not just forgive and not a harmonious chord for a minister of multiculturalism to but then Finestone is a but do these groups want How reasonable Are their claims what will it All Cost let me share my personal the italian canadians asked and an apology from former prime minister Brian some of them requested since they got what their group originally asked id Rule this a Case no the jewish and sikh cases protest what racist immigration which kept some would be immigrants out of forcing their return to other where some the jewish tragedy is Well but Canada has kept Many other immigrants some likewise fated to return to murderous if Ottawa were to set a precedent by paying redress because of biased immigration policies in our past or Many communities could legitimately Forward similar those would have to be it would end up costing billions of id no although a plaque commemorating the relatively experience of the sikhs probably should be erected in British Cost a few thousand German canadians have not reticent about taking a forceful Public position on although some innocent German canadians were mistreated during both world Jody free press file photo Secretary of state for says redress would be too this Case requires More i think an argument can probably be made in so lets leave this As an open no immediate that leaves just the Chines and ukrainian Canadian what both communities have requested is a restitution of the monies extorted by in the Chines Canadian Case through the confiscation of wealth from unjustly interned enemy aliens and the wholesale exploitation of prisoner although a Winnipeg based group has demanded several Hundred million dollars in its claims do not find much sympathy within the ukrainian Canadian widespread support does exist for the recommendation submitted to All maps and senators by the ukrainian Canadian civil liberties association on in its ukrainian Canadian restitution this association asked that Ottawa fund several educational programs and place historical plaques at the concentration Camp Sites using the monies taken from the those a few million remain in the Federal no financial compensation to any group in the Community is and there is no Cost to today what the association really wants is to ensure that what happened to ukrainian canadians during the first world War is not in the Hope that no other Canadian religious or racial group Ever suffers As ukrainian canadians once that in both these monies represent wealth illegitimately reaped by the Federal government through coercion and some very indeed in simple Ottawa should return monies stolen from its there Are several million canadians of sikh and ukrainian most Are they expect their concerns to be Given the same intelligent attention that should be accorded any and All other that Hast in the ukrainian Canadian for the minister has inexplicably refused to meet even once with the last known survivors of Canadas first National internment two Canad Anborn women who were incarcerated in the spirit Lake Camp in Quebec and who Are the honorary co chairwoman of the associations National redress Why does a minister responsible for multiculturalism and women affairs not want to meet with women who suffered in a Canadian concentration Camp like her the conservative minister Gerry Finestone has demonstrated a skill at avoiding any facet face meeting with the if Ottawa is truly too impoverished to pay redress for past then How is it that we can still afford to pay billions of dollars every apparently in to aboriginal canadians even the auditor general has confirmed despite this Many natives Are perpetually mired in hopeless will our redress to them go on forever perhaps the Reform party of so Quick off the Mark to applaud Fin stones miserly multiculturalism being an easy target these will have the political courage to tackle that knotty thereby demonstrating a genuine commitment to the Reform of our political these reformers often seem to play More to the Back ends and red necks of our country than to its As for Shes been not dear prime minister please play Santa Claus this under my Christmas tree leave a gift which i am sure millions of canadians of sikh and ukrainian heritage can really new minister of and dont worry about the late Date of this letter to Sheila can probably Tell you that canadians of ukrainian heritage wont be celebrating Christmas until theres plenty of time for you to run out and pick up my Lubomyr Luciuk is director of research for the ukrainian Canadian civil liberties doonesbury by Garry Trudeau i i 1 that5 1 in oui Why Pont my Start off Happy you plwn6 ;