Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 5, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editor John 6977044 focus Winnipeg free press a 7 january Many proposed a tax increase the article no More business says free 9 quotes John Granelli of the chamber of Commerce the commons finance committee has re ally not heard canadians very if they think canadians feel that there is a Revenue every one seemed to agree there cant be any More tax could Granelli have the hearing problem at the Selkirk which he i was Only one of several people who addressed the Revenue i advocated a new Green tax on All unsolicited and with statistics to show that such a tax could raise up to billion Annu some called for stricter audits of existing pointing out that for every Dollar spent on is others called for More progressive income taxes and for Banks and corporations to pay a fair share on their or of dollars in Peter of the Manitoba tax payers has implied this is All timeworn that is be cause it addresses a timeworn reve nue problem which governments refuse to Deal at a subsequent meeting in Winni there were angry denunciations of one of Paul Martins own which recently made an untaxed annual profit of More than million and received a tax that is a Revenue prob Many other canadians have addressed Newfoundland Liberal my George Baker would cancel corporate deductions for Lux Ury and save million this the National Council on welfare would abolish seven inequitable in come tax and raise billion the Canadian Auto workers pro poses a surtax on excessive Bank All of these proposals represent the views of a Large percentage of from Many different in one it is True Canada has no Revenue we have vast resources and i unless our govern ments have the courage and imagination to abandon the failed poli cies of previous years in favor of Seq just and progressive Only the favored few will Benefit from All these while the rest of us grow Martha Owen Pinawa protect our privacy with regard to Gordon Sinclair column 21 whining about someone cutting in front of him at the carwash lineup id like to know Why he was Able to run a licence plate Check in order to determine the name of the owner so he could carry out his personal vendettas and publicly chastise Pri vate citizens Over trivial everyday id expected the motor vehicle Branch would be More protective of our particularly for frivolous inquiries such As Rob Prodanyk Winnipeg Market harms healthcare in his 22 Dennis of the libertarian party of Manito mourned the state of health care in and suggested the answer was to be found through Dereg privatization and opening up health care to Market it is perfectly True that Canadas healthcare system is far from per changes should be made where they Are needed to ensure that canadians continue to receive High Stan Dards of medical care regardless of examining the shortcomings of the Market driven american healthcare system makes it Clear that to turn this Field Over to Market forces would be a disaster for a comparison of the statistics provided by the world health Organiza Tion demonstrates compared with other developed the provision of healthcare services in the United primarily based on Market has failed to protect the health of the american pop among the g7 the worlds seven largest economies the and the has the highest infant mortality 22 per cent higher than in can among these seven americans also have the shortest life and the is unrivalled in having the highest commonality of rebirth congenital a a woman in the is 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 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 Senf via the internet obviously cannot be but must Home address and Telephone nearly twice As Likely to have a baby with such abnormalities As in Canada nearly three times As Likely As in France and six times As Likely As in while those few americans who can afford it do have Access to some of the finest medical expertise in the the lesson from the is that a Market based healthcare sys tem produces death and sorrow for the Community As a Kevin Mcdougald Winnipeg ideological minister your editorial on the ideological underpinnings and partisan motivation for Clayton manness com ments on the Omec Reading and writing assessment is extremely accurate in its and devastatingly direct in its attribution of to like Lloyd Axworthy statement that Manitoba teachers collected unemployment insurance benefits Over the summer the minis Ter of educations comments have much to do with political Points Cor and Little to do with the subject he claims to when test results Are manness eagerly trumpets them As evidence of the failure of the that he does not apply even the most modest degree of consistency when results Are positive demonstrates How binding is his ideological the As manness and his conservative colleagues Are fond of belongs to those who who think critically and who avoid binding themselves to outmoded and restrictive if the minister had thought in the Best sense of the he per haps would have had something of substance to say about the achieve ment of Manitoba students and Donald Teel Winnipeg hosing Down property owners the City of Winnipeg 1995 proper Tutax grab of per cent is totally by hosing Down each property owner for this extra Cash the City is illustrating what every except City under stands the City of Winnipeg continues to spend Money beyond the ability of taxpayers to pay with inflation standing at per with wage freezes in the Pri vate salary reductions and welfare rollbacks by most Levels of the City has made an unconscionable grab at the wallets of the this action sup ports an observation found in the 8 free which states Between 1969 and while Many Day today living expenses taxes Rose it is time for Susan Thompson to Stop behaving like an animated muppet and Start behaving like a get those councillors under and dont just aim for a tax go for a tax we All need and the mayors Job depends on Winnipeg no place for lighters regarding the tragic House fires started by children playing with cig Arette lighters i think common sense would suggest that lighters any kind of lighters and cigarettes have no place in a Home with children nor in any other think of the benefits if this were re the the children and All of society would greatly Marth Janzen Winnipeg Africa disturbing decline by William Pfaff foreign affairs Magazine the destitution of Africa has been an All but for Bidden topic in political com but the time has come for honest and dispassionate debate on this human for which the Western countries Bear a grave if partial which Worsen if not much of Africa to put it what one could Call a disinterested africans acknowledge the immensity of their crisis and the need to con Sider formerly unacceptable Rem fewer than a third of sub saharan Africa nations have any thing resembling multiparty poli from now the danger in Sev eral parts of the continent is of pure destruction or generalized the destabilization is already evident in Liberia and says Congo Lese author Ange a spokesman for the International committee of the red Cross says of Liberia no moral barriers every reference to the principles and values which found and bind a Community of men have Virtu ally nothing remains except horror and most of Africa lacks the crucial educated Middle and professional classes and the mediating private and Public institutions that com pose a civil civil society makes democracy without it democracy has failed and will continue to fail in the history of the continent since the great wave of decolonization in the late 1950s and Early 1960s includes a shameful series of self interested foreign intervene indigenous african conflicts were ruthlessly exploited by the soviet Cuba and the United with deliberate instigation or intensification of wars in Katan Angola and but this history is also a Chroni Cle of anarchic breakdown within african some of which Are manifestly worse off now than under heading toward the Type of social collapse and genocidal struggle that has occurred in Rwanda and the anarchic struggle for factional Power in Somalia goes with both the United nations and the United states be fore that came horrors in Liberia and Sierra As Well As in equatorial Mozambique and a part of West Africa today suf fers insensate and feral devoid of political or ideological conducted by atomic Young men serv ing Caligula this is a postmodern barbarism unconnected to any african the Uganda of Idi Amin and the Central african Empire of the egregious Jean Del Bokassa seem rational enterprises com pared with the inadvertent and apocalyptic nihilism Practised there and in the historical record is but it seems fair to say that when the europeans first came to Africa there were functioning societies of varying degrees of so others were simple Hunting and gathering some extremely cruel in their but All possessed their own integ Rity and integrated into the natural environment of the this was destroyed by Coloni what followed was exploitation on the one including the atrocious slave on the other hand there were More or less sincere attempts at Western style uplift and religious salvation of Pagan africans so they could be remade culturally As which was assumed to be the most advanced a photo gunmen roam the streets of where the struggle for Power goes rwandans fled the capital City of Kigali last year during a time of social form of whatever the merits of the latter the colonizers did not stay in Africa Long enough for it to have the faintest Chance of colonialism lasted Long enough to destroy the preexisting social and political but not Long enough to put anything solid and lasting in their so now what can be done Ali a kenyan history wants the old league of nations trusteeship system re Stab with african and asian nations among those appointed by the United nations to govern cer Tain under the guidance of a Council of major african which would possess a peacekeeping France proposed the creation of such an inter african Force at the French african Summit in Biarritz in november 1994 and offered logistical but this evoked Little response from the african Par an internationalist in trustee As Marui seems in the United even is it has great difficulty finding peacekeeping it is All but with the United states the principal de Faulter on pledged it has no apparatus for actually governing a and the poli ticking of its membership makes it All but impossible to acquire who is principally responsible for this catastrophe the european Powers who colonized out of a Complex mix Ture of Good and bad destroying Africa existing social and political systems and its Cus Tomary institutions and who outside of Africa has the most urgent material interest in its condition the former european co Lonial Africa continued foundering Means the exodus of hundreds of even Mil of desperate people headed to the closest place where they can find a their scarcely controllable migration to Europe has already Cre ated immense social problems and serious political tensions who is Able to Supply not Only peacekeeping and peacemaking in but also serious help build ing economies and infrastructure neither the United nations nor the United As we have French Africa for More than three decades has been the Africa that the place where life for Ordinary africans has been markedly better than where the old colonial As one commentator put absconded with no forwarding France today is probably the Only european country that if consider a major commitment to the rehabilitation of a former it would be better if the euro Pean Union As an which insists it wants an International role for would collectively assume such responsibilities in cooperation with africans in an Effort to arrest the continents decline and put it on a progressive this would be the project of a perhaps a but it could mean a great Deal for Africa and be a deeply constructive accomplishment for it would eventually and that would have to be understood from the the european pledge to the Afri cans would be we imposed this or Deal of modernization on which you Are determined to com we Are prepared to rejoin you and support you in that enter there need be no to realization or europeans in say to africans you Are divided by hysterical tribalism and suffer Anar Chical social upheavals some among you have committed Geno cide you have Practised ethnic murder we know All about look at our history in this same there Are no invidious moral distinctions to be drawn be tween let us now work to Gether to find a Way out of to Ward higher distributed by new York times special features William Pfaff writes a syndicated column for the International Herald his latest Book is the Wrath of published by this article is adapted from the january 95 Issue of for eign doonesbury by Garry Trudeau Pear youth Vnti you a veto much some fwu and Agai to ;